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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Ellen Kirwin & Damon Wilkinson

I cancelled the papers & the milkman and then killed my wife

A man who killed his terminally ill wife in a suicide pact walked free from court this week.

Former Manchester Airport baggage handler Graham Mansfield told how he shared a final drink with his wife, Dyanne, before going to the bottom of their garden to end their lives. The 73-year-old, slit her throat in March last year then unsuccessfully tried to kill himself.

In an interview with the MEN at his home in Hale, Mr Mansfield said his wife was informed she had stage four lung cancer in October 2020, just weeks after they'd celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary.

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