Sex offender Daniel Hume’s successful application sparks controversy
Daniel Hume, a convicted sex criminal, died in the hospital after a successful application for the state’s voluntary -backed death plan in the first example of NSW.
After serving Hume’s 30 -year -old sentence for various sex crimes, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and applied to access the plan through justice health.
Health Minister Ryan Park. Credit: Sitthixay ditthavong
NSW Correction Minister Anourack Chanthivong and Health Minister Ryan Park, said the decision to approve the application is not consulted. Hume died in the hospital last week.
Health Minister Ryan Park said: “NSW Volunteer -Supported Death Council is the independent supervision and decision -making body.
“A fundamental function of the Board is to decide whether to reject or reject applications for access to voluntary -supported death in line with strict legislative requirements.”
The volunteer -backed death process includes four approval phases, including the final approval of the voluntary -supported death committee consisting of five legal and medical practitioners.
According to the data published in November, in seven months after the Valley became legal in NSW, 1141 people applied to use it, and 398 people died after deem to take a fatal substance.
The defenders of the victims spoke against the decision of Hume’s application, saying that the priority of the justice medical officials had to confirm their applications for “good, good people… who have been convicted of inferior crimes”.
An anonymous NSW prison boss The Daily Telegraph“Hume’s approved valley application to die last week created a dangerous precedent,” he said.
