No Charges For Children In Suicide Of Conductor, Wife

“Caractacus Downes was told there was sufficient evidence to prosecute him for assisting his parents’ suicide but it was not considered to be in the public interest to do so. Sir Edward [Downes] died alongside his wife Joan at the Dignitas clinic in Zurich in July last year, leaving £2.6 million to Caractacus and his sister Boudicca, 38.”