District Judge Dorothy McCarter ruled that, under the constitution of Montana, 76 year-old retired truck-driver Bob Baxter had the right to ask his physician to help him die.

Retired Supreme Court judge Keith Mason said mental health was ''an area where for all sorts of reasons it can't be dealt with publicly.

She leapt to fame as the girlfriend of England and retired Spurs player Teddy Sheringham in 2006, who she met while he was a judge on the Miss Great Britain panel.