'An act of love to end her suffering' - Judge's words as man walks free from court after cutting wife's throat
Those were the heartbreaking words of Mr Justice Goose as he handed Graham Mansfield a suspended sentence for killing his wife during a failed suicide pact.
His wife Dyanne Mansfield, 71, had been diagnosed with lung cancer and was becoming 'weaker and weaker, Manchester Crown Court heard. Police found Mr Mansfield lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen of their home in Canterbury Road, Hale. But the case could be reduced to manslaughter if they believed it was "more likely than not" that Mrs Mansfield voluntarily agreed to the suicide pact and that her husband had made a genuine attempt to take his own life. The judge, who told jurors they must apply the law despite 'however sympathetic you may feel', said previously: "It remains unlawful and may reduce this offence from murder to manslaughter.
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