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Helena Smith in Paphos

Briton tells Cyprus court wife begged him to end her cancer pain

David Hunter arriving at court in Paphos
David Hunter arriving at court in Paphos in March. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

A euthanasia case that has gripped Cyprus for more than a year has entered its final phase as a British pensioner accused of murdering his cancer-stricken wife told how she “begged” him to end the excruciating pain that made her life unbearable.

David Hunter had waited a long time to have his day in court and in electrifying evidence before a three-member tribunal in Paphos on Monday, the 76-year-old described the circumstances that he said led him in the run-up to Christmas 2021 to fatally smother his wife, Janice, his teenage sweetheart and the woman he had loved for more than half a century.

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