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A pensioner who slashed his wife’s throat then tried to kill himself as part of a suicide pact has been convicted of manslaughter. Graham Mansfield, 73, claimed he and his wife of more than 40 years had agreed that he would kill her when her terminal cancer got "too bad".
Dyanne Mansfield, 71, had been diagnosed with lung cancer and was becoming "weaker and weaker", a court heard this week. Police found Mr Mansfield lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen of their home in Hale, reports Manchester Evening News.
Mansfield had phoned 999 and told the operator that he’d slit his wife’s throat the night before, and had tried to kill himself but failed. He was discovered slumped in a chair at the bottom of their garden. A note left nearby addressed to police read: “We have decided to take our own lives.”
At a trial, Mr Mansfield denied murder and manslaughter. The judge, Mr Justice Goose, told jurors that for Mr Mansfield to be convicted of murder, they had to be sure that he used unlawful violence, which caused the death of his wife, and that he intended to kill her.
But the case could be reduced to manslaughter if they believed it was "more likely than not" that the suicide pact was a joint agreement between the couple, which Mrs Mansfield had voluntarily agreed to and that her husband had made a genuine attempt on his own life.
The judge, who told jurors they must apply the law despite "however sympathetic you may feel", said: “It remains unlawful and may reduce this offence from murder to manslaughter.”
Jurors took 90 minutes to return the unanimous verdict following a four day trial. Mr Mansfield, a former baggage handler at Manchester Airport, showed no emotion as the jury foreperson delivered the verdict. He is due to be
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A husband who killed his cancer-stricken wife in a desperate suicide pact has revealed how they shared a last drink together before going to the bottom of the garden to end their lives. Graham Mansfield, 73, walked free from court on Thursday after being convicted of the manslaughter of his 71-year-old wife Dyanne.
Graham Mansfield told how he feared he'd be sent to jail after being convicted of the manslaughter of Dyanne, his wife of more than 40 years. Mrs Mansfield, 71, who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, had asked her husband to kill her when her illness got 'too bad' as she didn't want to go into hospital.
A husband who killed his wife in an 'act of love' as she battled terminal cancer has called for a change in the law to allow euthanasia to be legalised. Graham Mansfield, 73, walked free from court after being convicted of the manslaughter of his 71-year-old wife Dyanne.