Husband who slashed wife’s throat in suicide pact says he ‘killed her with love’ as he walks free
22.07.2022 - 14:49
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
A husband who killed his cancer-stricken wife in a desperate suicide pact has revealed 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.
The pensioner slit the throat of his wife of 42-years in March last year but then unsuccessfully tried to kill himself. Mr Mansfield has now shared how his wife was told by doctors she had stage four lung cancer in October 2020, just weeks after they’d celebrated their ruby wedding.
When they returned home from the hospital the suicide pact was first raised. Mrs Mansfield asked her husband if he would be willing to kill her if things got ‘too bad’. He agreed ‘on one condition’.
In an interview with the Manchester Evening News at his home in Hale, Mr Mansfield said: “I said I would have to go with her. I said ‘I can’t live without you Dyanne’. In a funny way it gave me strength. I knew I was dying as well. I could focus on that.”
The couple met in their local pub in Woodhouse Park in Wythenshawe on New Year’s Eve in 1974 and were married six years later. They shared many interests, including walking, gardening and cycling, and it was, according to Mr Mansfield a loving and happy marriage.
He said: “Dyanne was a wonderful person. She was my whole world. We didn’t need anybody else. We just needed one another. We had a wonderful life together.”
But by March last year Mrs Mansfield was in unbearable pain and told her husband "I’ve had enough, I can’t take anymore." On March 22 they drove to Buxton and Macclesfield to find a "quiet and convenient" place to carry out the pact, but instead decided to use their
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