Christian campaigners protest as terminally-ill man challenges euthanasia ban

The campaigners from disability group The Distant Voices created a “giant graveyard” outside the Royal Courts of Justice to highlight the danger of the court ruling in favour of Noel Conway.

“The bottom line is it’s just too dangerous,” said Nikki Kenward, a Christian who organised the protest. “We’ve seen in every country that it’s been made legal that the use of it spreads in the most terrible way.”

Kenward, who has Guillain-Barré syndrome, also told Premier: “Should Mr Conway win his case it will change my life forever. As a disabled person I am only too aware that some people see me as having ‘no quality of life.’ A young friend, who has cerebral palsy, and I, were told by a youth worker, ‘If I were you two I’d rather be dead.’ Please don’t tell me I will not be vulnerable if euthanasia is legalised.”

Disability rights campaigners outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London,

Conway, a 68-year-old retired lecturer from Shrewsbury, wants to be helped to die – which the law currently prevents – when he has less than six months left to live, still has mental capacity to make the decision and has made a “voluntary, clear, settled and informed” decision.

He has proposed that he could only receive assistance to die if a High Court judge determined that he meets all three of those criteria.