Two of the charges against a Tallaght woman accused of helping her friend to die by suicide have been dropped.
Gail O’Rorke from Kilclare Gardens is now facing just one charge of trying to arrange for Bernadette Forde to travel to DIGNITAS in Switzerland.
An aggressive form of MS combined with a serious crash in 2008 left Bernadette Forde wheelchair bound and in need of 24 hour care.
Gail O’Rorke worked as her part time carer and they became close friends.
Ms. Forde was found dead in her Donnybrook apartment in 2011.
A lethal dose of a drug used for capital punishments was found in her system.
Earlier this week, Ms. O’Rorke pleaded not guilty to helping her friend get this drug and helping her to administer it.
She also denied making funeral arrangements in advance of her death but both those charges were dropped today.
All that will be left for the jurors to decide when they begin their deliberations is whether she’s guilty of trying to assist in her suicide by making arrangements to travel to a euthanasia centre in Zurich.
