A pensioner who slashed his wife’s throat then tried to kill himself as part of a suicide pact has been convicted of manslaughter. Graham Mansfield, 73, claimed he and his wife of more than 40 years had agreed that he would kill her when her terminal cancer got "too bad".
Dyanne Mansfield, 71, had been diagnosed with lung cancer and was becoming "weaker and weaker", a court heard this week. Police found Mr Mansfield lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen of their home in Hale, reports Manchester Evening News.
Mansfield had phoned 999 and told the operator that he’d slit his wife’s throat the night before, and had tried to kill himself but failed. He was discovered slumped in a chair at the bottom of their garden. A note left nearby addressed to police read: “We have decided to take our own lives.”
