A 76-year-old man who killed his terminally ill wife after she ‘cried and begged’ him to do it has been released from prison.
It was in December 2021 when David Hunter ended the life of his wife Janice, 74, at their home in Cyprus.
Janice had been battling a rare type of blood cancer and could no longer take care of herself in the weeks leading up to her demise.
As her condition got worse, Janice begged her husband to kill her. David only agreed after she became desperate to end her suffering.
When defense lawyer Ritsa Pekri asked David about his wife’s final days, he said: “She was crying, crying, crying, begging, begging, begging.
“She wasn’t taking any care of herself. For the last two or three weeks she could not move her arms and had trouble with her legs, she couldn’t balance.”
David continued: “She was only eating soup, she couldn’t hold anything down. She lost a lot of weight. She lost so much weight that there was no flesh to put her injections in.”
The grieving husband also opened up about their ‘perfect’ 52-year-old marriage before he shared their final moments together.
“For five or six weeks before she died she was asking me to help her. She was asking me more every day,” he expressed.
“In the last week she was crying and begging me. Every day she asked me a bit more intensely to do it.”
According to the Independent, David was sentenced to two years behind bars but was released after spending 19 years in jail.
Paphos District Court heard that his motive was to ‘liberate his wife from all that she was going through due to her health conditions’ and that he only agreed to do so after her desperate pleas.
The court also heard how he tried to end his own life but medics who arrived at the scene were able to revive him.
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