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"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'
22.07.2022 - 12:31 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Graham Mansfield told how he feared he'd be sent to jail after being convicted of the manslaughter of Dyanne, his wife of more than 40 years. Mrs Mansfield, 71, who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, had asked her husband to kill her when her illness got 'too bad' as she didn't want to go into hospital.
He slit her throat before making serious attempts on his own life, which ultimately failed. After a four day trial at Manchester Crown Court, a jury found 73-year-old Mansfield not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter.
They accepted he'd formed a genuine suicide pact with his wife, which she'd agreed to. The judge, Mr Justice Julian Goose, said the case was 'exceptional' and allowed Mansfield to walk free from court.
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Here is everything the judge told Mansfield during Thursday afternoon's sentencing hearing:
"In October 2020 your wife, Dyanne Mansfield, was diagnosed with stage four cancer of the lung. She was 71 and you had been happily married for 41 years.
"You were aged 72. That was not the first time she had been diagnosed with cancer.
"In 1999 she was diagnosed with a cancerous tumour of the bladder, which in 2004 became a secondary tumour, requiring the removal of a kidney and her urethra.
"The diagnosis in 2020 was of secondary malignant disease in the lung, consequent upon the earlier cancer of the bladder.
"The treatment with chemotherapy appeared to be achieving some success but in truth it was not, because by February 2021, she had developed a further cancer in her neck.
"She was losing weight, had difficulty swallowing and could not
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