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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Chiara Giordano

Pensioner who killed wife in ‘suicide pact’ walks free as judge says he ‘acted out of love’

Greater Manchester Police

A pensioner who cut his terminally-ill wife’s throat in a “suicide pact” will walk free from court after being handed a suspended jail sentence.

Graham Mansfield, 73, said he killed cancer-stricken Dyanne Mansfield, 71, in an “act of love” months after she asked him to take her life “when things get bad for me”.

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