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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Damon Wilkinson

"She was my whole world": Husband who cut his terminally ill wife's throat in desperate suicide pact says he 'killed her with love'... she promised him 'I won't make a noise'

A husband who killed his terminally ill wife in a desperate suicide pact has told how they shared a last drink together before going to the bottom of the garden to end their lives. Graham Mansfield, 73, walked free from court on Thursday after being convicted of the manslaughter of his 71-year-old wife Dyanne.

He slit her throat in March last year then unsuccessfully tried to kill himself. In an interview with the Manchester Evening News at his home in Hale, Mr Mansfield told how 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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