ANDREA VANCE <\/p>\n
MICHAEL BEAUMONT\/Fairfax NZ <\/p>\n
SET FREE: Sean Davison with his dogs Buzz and Kuri. <\/p>\n
ASSISTED DEATH: Patricia Davidson, 85, was terminally ill and suffering when she died in 2006. <\/p>\n
Breathing in the tang of sea air, Sean Davison tasted freedom for the first time in five months. <\/p>\n
For weeks a small, secluded Dunedin bungalow has been the prison where he served home detention for assisting his cancer-ravaged mother to die. <\/p>\n
About 9.30am yesterday, he was freed from his electronic bracelet with a pair of scissors. <\/p>\n
He took his first steps outside on the beach before running up Mt Cargill with his dog. \"It was a tremendous relief. Freedom, fresh air, exercise,\" he said. <\/p>\n
Mr Davison, 50, a microbiologist, was convicted last year for counselling and procuring attempted suicide. After nursing his dying mother Patricia, 85, for three months in 2006, he mixed a potion of crushed morphine tablets to help her slip away. <\/p>\n
She asked for his help five weeks into a hunger strike his sister and a neighbour had refused. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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