Graham Mansfield was found not guilty of murder after cutting his wife’s throat “in an act of love” before trying to kill himself, after a judge accepted the couple had made a suicide pact.
It took 90 minutes for a jury to clear Mansfield, 73, from Hale in Greater Manchester, of the charge of murder after he gave an emotional testimony of how he had killed his wife, Dyanne, because she was in such pain with terminal cancer. He was, though, given a suspended sentence of two years after being found guilty of manslaughter.
