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The Latest Breaking News from Graham Mansfield

The court cases that shocked Greater Manchester in 2022

Court reporter Andrew Bardsley looks back at some of the most high profile cases the M.E.N. has covered

Manchester Evening News · Dec 30, 2022

What is assisted dying and where is it legal? New Bill gives Esther Rantzen 'glimpse of hope'

The campaigner and TV personality is among those to welcome a Bill that would allow terminally ill adults to end their lives subject to strict criteria

Evening Standard · Aug 25, 2022

The Mancunian Way: He had friends all over

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Manchester Evening News · Aug 11, 2022

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'It's not the first time and it won't be the last': Graham and Dyanne Mansfield's tragic suicide pact shows why we need to change the law on assisted dying

If we had a compassionate assisted dying law in the UK, none of this would have happened, writes Andrew Copson, chief executive of Humanists UK

Manchester Evening News · Aug 7, 2022

'We're here to support you at the end': The message from cancer carers after the death of Dyanne Mansfield

Patients and families can face being 'under strain while alone', they are here to help

Manchester Evening News · Jul 25, 2022

'He killed her because he loved her', her brother forgave him, and then he walked free from court - the couple whose story could change Britain

M.E.N court reporter Andrew Bardsley reports on an extraordinary case

Manchester Evening News · Jul 24, 2022

The man who killed his wife by slitting her throat in 'an act of love'... and the emotional debate that followed

"Without urgent reform we will certainly see more tragic cases like the Mansfields, but fortunately the clamour for change is louder than ever"

Manchester Evening News · Jul 24, 2022

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Terminally-ill wife promised ‘I won’t make a noise’ before husband slit her throat

Graham Mansfield was cleared of murder but given a suspended sentence for manslaughter after slitting his wife Dyanne's throat before making a failed suicide attempt

Daily Mirror · Jul 23, 2022

‘Are you ready?’ Man tells of slitting wife’s throat in suicide pact in garden

Grieving husband, 73, calls for euthanasia to be legalised after being convicted of the manslaughter of his terminally ill wife

The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2022

'He killed his wife but he's no criminal - I want to shake him by the hand for speaking out': Man with Alzheimer's backs tragic case of Graham Mansfield

Alex Pandolfo has supported calls made by Graham Mansfield for a change in the law over assisted dying

Manchester Evening News · Jul 22, 2022

Man who killed his wife in ‘act of love’ calls for assisted dying law

Graham Mansfield, sentenced this week for killing terminally ill Dyanne, says if he had to do the ‘horrible act’ again, he would

The Guardian - UK · Jul 22, 2022

The Mancunian Way: An act of love

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Manchester Evening News · Jul 22, 2022

Brother of woman killed by her husband in suicide pact speaks out on his 'similar situation'

Graham Mansfield slit his wife's throat then unsuccessfully tried to kill himself

Manchester Evening News · Jul 22, 2022

Euthanasia and assisted suicide: what is the law in the UK ?

As Graham Mansfield is found not guilty of murder for killing his terminally ill wife, Dyanne, we look at key assisted-dying debates

The Guardian - UK · Jul 22, 2022

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Daily Record · Jul 22, 2022

Husband who slashed wife’s throat in suicide pact says he ‘killed her with love’ as he walks free

Graham Mansfield, 73, cut his wife's throat with a Stanley blade then unsuccessfully tried to kill himself but has walked free from court this week.

Manchester Evening News · Jul 22, 2022

How mercy-killings are prosecuted and why Graham Mansfield was convicted of killing his wife

"Mansfield failed to convince the jury that this had been a lawful killing"

Daily Mirror · Jul 22, 2022

Husband who cut sick wife's throat in suicide pact speaks out - 'I killed her with love'

Graham Mansfield's wife Dyanne was in such unbearable pain she told her husband 'I've had enough, I can’t take anymore' as the couple made a suicide pact in their garden

Manchester Evening News · Jul 22, 2022

"You killed your wife... and then tried to kill yourself": Every harrowing word the judge told Graham Mansfield as he allowed him to walk free from court after killing his wife in 'act of love'

The judge said it was an 'exceptional' case

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Liverpool Echo · Jul 22, 2022

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

Graham Mansfield unsuccessfully tried to kill himself after killing wife Dyanne

Wales Online · Jul 22, 2022

Husband tells of moment he killed his wife 'with love' after cancer battle

Graham Mansfield says it went against every fibre of his being to take the life of Dyanne, who he had loved for almost 50 years

Manchester Evening News · Jul 22, 2022

"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'

He slit her throat then unsuccessfully tried to kill himself. In an exclusive interview with the Manchester Evening News at his home in Hale, Mr Mansfield says the act "went against every fibre of my body", adding: "I ran round to the front of the chair. I said 'What have…

Manchester Evening News · Jul 21, 2022

'An act of love to end her suffering' - Judge's words as man walks free from court after cutting wife's throat

"The last thing you would have wanted was not joining your wife in death."

Manchester Evening News · Jul 21, 2022

The Mancunian Way: When pollution spikes

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Manchester Evening News · Jul 21, 2022

"I don't want anybody else to go through this..." husband who killed wife in failed suicide pact calls for euthanasia to be legalised

Graham Mansfield, 73, received a suspended sentence for the manslaughter of his wife Dyanne

The Independent UK · Jul 21, 2022

Suicide pact pensioner who killed wife says ‘law has to change’

Graham Mansfield walked free from court after a judge said he was satisfied he acted ‘out of love’ in taking the life of his cancer-stricken wife.

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