Former Dundee nurse Lucille McLauchlan Ferrie died on Tuesday after her family instructed doctors at Ninewells Hospital to switch off her life support machine.
The 47-year-old, who was imprisoned and sentenced to 500 lashes over themurder of a colleague in Saudi Arabia in 1996, suffered a massive and catastrophic brain haemorrhage at her home in Broughty Ferry on Sunday.
Her children could not rouse her in the top floor Brook Street flat and she was rushed by ambulance to Ninewells, where she was placed on life support.
Her parents Stan and Anne were told by doctors her internal bleeding was so severe she could not be saved.
Solicitor William Boyle said on their behalf: “On medical advice, thefamily took the decision to instruct doctors to switch off her life support system.
“At her own request, organs have been donated. The family ask that at this difficult time their privacy is respected.”
It is understood her life support machine was switched off at midnight on Monday and she passed away in the early hours of Tuesday.
Lucille McLauchlan and her English colleague Deborah Parry were at the centre of international media attention when they were accused of the murder of Australian nurse Yvonne Gilford and the theft of her credit cards.
McLauchlan was jailed for eight years and ordered to be flogged and DeborahParry was sentenced to execution by beheading for her part in the killing.
Both women were pardoned in 1998 after 17 months in the Saudi prison, with King Fahd granting them clemency afterlobbying by the British Government.
The pardons were granted after so-called “blood money” under Islamic law was paid to Mrs Gilford’s family in Australia.
McLauchlan and Parry protested their innocence in the killing, claiming theyconfessed to the crimes because they had been threatened with sexual abuse.
McLauchlan went on to marry herfianc Grant Ferrie, from whom she later separated, while in a Saudi prison.
On her return to Dundee, she was found guilty of charges of reset, theft and fraud and sentenced to 240 hours of community service. She had used a bank card, stolen from a patient at Kings Cross Hospital in Dundee, to obtain £300.
After her conviction, she was struck off the nursing register by the UK Central Council for Nursing and in 2008 she was declared bankrupt at Dundee Sheriff Court.
In February 2011 she was put onprobation for fraud and in 2012 sheadmitted stealing a tub of face cream from a Boots store in Dundee.
She latterly lived quietly with her son and daughter in Broughty Ferry.