David Hunter guilty of seriously ill wife's manslaughter in Cyprus

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A British antheral who killed his earnestly sick woman astatine their location successful Cyprus has been convicted of manslaughter.

David Hunter, 76, was connected proceedings for execution aft suffocating 74-year-old Janice Hunter astatine their location adjacent Paphos successful December 2021.

The retired miner from Northumberland maintained her decease was assisted termination and she had begged him to extremity her misery.

Mrs Hunter, who had humor cancer, died of asphyxiation.

The couple, from Ashington, had been unneurotic for 56 years, and joined for 52, earlier they retired to Cyprus 2 decades ago.

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