Will someone be prosecuted for the assisted suicide of rugby player Daniel James?

The parents of a young rugby player who travelled to a Swiss clinic to kill himself after he was paralysed in a training accident said he was living “a second-class existence”. Daniel James, 23, who played for England schoolboys had travelled to a euthanasia clinic last month with his parents, Mark and Julie.

The student was left paralysed from the chest down after his spine was dislocated when a scrum collapsed during training with Nuneaton Rugby Club in March 2007. But his condition is not believed to have been terminal and he is reported to have made some progress in regaining use of his fingers.

At 23, James was the youngest Briton to die of assisted suicide.

No one has yet been successfully prosecuted for assisted suicide using the Swiss clinic, but this case may be different as Daniel James' condition was not terminal.