- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAnne Curtis Pyke
- Having been diagnosed with incurable progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) in 2004 and having watched her husband 'Jack Turner' die from a closely related illness, Dr Anne Turner chose to end her life using assisted suicide, illegal in the UK, travelling to Switzerland to do so in January 2006. Turner chose to make her case known to the press and in particular to the BBC, whose journalists accompanied her on her trip. The story was later turned into a TV film A Short Stay in Switzerland (2009) broadcast in 2009 by the BBC and released on DVD. Turner was played by Julie Walters, her son Edward by Stephen Campbell Moore, the film also starred Harriet Walter as well as the BBC journalist Fergus Walsh who played himself.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseJack Turner(June 1962 - September 25, 2002) (his death, 3 children)
- Survived breast cancer after having a mastectomy in 2004.
- Grandmother of Indira Pandit.
- Daughter of Sylvia Pyke (born Sylvia Rosamund D'Urban Carey Curtis in 1908, died 2 August 2005 at the age of 96) and Thomas Musgrave Pyke (born 14th March 1902, died 1992) who married 22nd December 1932.
- Died less than six months after her mother died.
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