A retired coal miner told his daughter that he would kill himself at the first opportunity after failing in a suicide pact with his terminally ill partner in Cyprus.
David Hunter, 74, has been charged with murdering his wife of 52 years, Janice Hunter, in December 2021. However, he insists that it was her wish to die.
In an exclusive interview with The Mirror, it was told how David is alleged to have suffocated Janice, who had leukaemia, before taking an overdose of prescription pills, but he was found and survived.