An ex-nurse who confessed to going
online to encourage people to kill themselves has been convicted of assisting a
Brit to commit suicide.
A judge found there was significant evidence William
Melchert-Dinkel assisted depressed Mark Drybrough in his July 2005 death in
Coventry even though he had not provided physical assistance.
He was first
convicted three years ago, but the Minnesota Supreme Court threw out the
convictions earlier this year after ruling that parts of state law making it a
crime to encourage or advise a suicide were unconstitutional.
Minneapolis Judge
Thomas Neuville also found the 52-year-old had tried to help 18-year-old
Canadian Nadia Kajouji, with a suicide, though his instruction on how to hang
herself was not a direct cause of her 2008 death.
The court had heard how IT
technician Drybrough, 32, has chatted online with Melchert-Dinkel in the days
leading up to his death
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