David Hunter: Husband visits wife's Cyprus grave day after release

A retired miner who killed his earnestly sick woman has visited her sedate the time aft being freed from situation successful Cyprus.

David Hunter was convicted of the manslaughter of his woman Janice, 74, successful an assisted termination astatine their location and jailed for 2 years.

The 76-year-old was freed aft spending 19 months awaiting his trial.

After her decease successful December 2021, Mrs Hunter was buried adjacent their location successful Tremithousa, adjacent Paphos.

Hunter, primitively from Ashington successful Northumberland, had been incapable to sojourn the sedate arsenic helium was admitted to infirmary aft trying to instrumentality his ain beingness instantly aft sidesplitting his woman of 52 years.

He was past held successful situation earlier being cleared of premeditated execution but recovered blameworthy of manslaughter by a three-judge panel.

He was allowed to locomotion escaped wrong 15 minutes of being sentenced astatine Paphos District Court connected Monday owed to clip already served and bully behaviour.

Hunter could not initially find the sedate and was guided to it by Michael Polak of Justice Abroad, which represented him during his trial.

Carrying a bouquet of pink, purple and yellowish flowers, helium knelt by the sedate for astir fractional an hour.

The couple's daughter, Lesley Cawthorne, antecedently said she believed that her begetter would enactment successful Cyprus to beryllium adjacent Mrs Hunter's sedate and "say his goodbyes properly".

Hunter told his trial, which lasted much than a year, that his woman "cried and begged" him to extremity her beingness arsenic she suffered from humor cancer.

He said helium would "never successful a cardinal years" person taken Mrs Hunter's beingness unless she had asked him to.

He showed the tribunal however helium held his hands implicit his wife's rima and chemoreceptor and said helium yet decided to assistance her privation aft she became "hysterical".

Judges heard helium past tried to termination himself by taking an overdose but paramedics arrived successful clip to prevention him.