I have posted this message on The Sun website because I feel that I was misquoted regarding the article that they wrote which included some of my comments and information from my website. Unfortunately I didn't realise that there is obviously a limit on how many words you can put on The Sun's comment section on their website. So this is the full article.

I feel that I must put a couple of points straight regarding the article that was published in the Sun today. The reporter obviously found me via my website because I had previously written a blog post about the tetraplegic character in Emmerdale. At the time I had no idea where this plot was going, nor how much controversy it was going to cause. I want to put straight that I did not state that Emmerdale was "losing the plot". It's quite the opposite actually, I think they carried it off really well and I doubt whether any of the other big soaps could have done quite such a good job and made the plot look credible. I saw nothing horrific about the scenes where we saw him ingest a lethal concoction of drugs contained in a drink. I could understand if he threw himself under a train, or got somebody to slit his wrists, but I just don't see what all the fuss about the scenes we saw the other evening.

A lot of people are up in arms and would rather see a positive storyline regarding disability, rather than all doom and gloom. The script writers have been extremely brave in going down the road of assisted suicide, maybe there wouldn't have been such an outcry if it was somebody suffering from Motor Neurone Disease, I think the fact it was a young 20-year-old who could have possibly lived for another 40 years. That said, this is not fiction, this has happened in recent years so I see no harm in addressing this very sensitive subject. The soaps have covered just about every other subject, rape, child molestation, murder, domestic violence, why not assisted suicide? Somebody on here quoted that this is just a television drama, I totally agree, this is a drama at the end of the day, the script writers have got a duty to write scripts that will keep people interested and not flip the switch and go and watch something else. There is only so much you can write about somebody in a wheelchair who cannot move anything apart from his bed. We saw Jackson carry out a parachute jump, that was great, but do we want to see him do it over and over again? I suppose they could have turned him into some kind of super crip where we saw him scuba-diving, skiing, mountain climbing, but that isn't going to keep the public's interest. My hats go off to the Emmerdale script writers for approaching the subject of assisted suicide and carrying it out with such sensitivity and credibility. 

I think that Marc Silcock portrayed somebody with a spinal cord injury extremely well and to the untrained eye, could probably pass himself off as a genuine disabled person. I'm afraid the same thing can't be said about other storylines which saw people suffering brain injuries after being shot. These people have now made a miraculous recovery after both being unable to walk or talk properly, less than a year later they're trotting around as if nothing has ever happened. These are the type of storylines that we should be slating as they could give false hope to people in the same situation. It was obvious that Jackson Walsh was never going to recover and saw no other way out of the situation than ending his life prematurely. Way to go Emmerdale