A retired miner has vowed to take his own life at the first opportunity after a suicide pact with his terminally-ill wife failed. David Hunter, 74, is charged in Cyprus with murdering his wife of 52 years Janice in December, but insists it was her wish to die.
He is alleged to have suffocated leukaemia-stricken Janice before taking an overdose of prescription pills, however he was found and survived. Daughter Lesley Cawthorne, 49, has revealed his agony as he faces a life sentence unless the charge is reduced to assisted dying, reports the Mirror.
Speaking to her from prison in Cypriot capital Nicosia, he told her: “I do not know how to live without her. I’m Janice’s husband, and without her, I don’t really know who I am.”
