When police were called to Bill and Joan Mungall's home, he said: "She's not in pain anymore. She was in such pain last night." He also told a doctor: "I couldn't cope any more. I killed her. It's been four years now."
But prosecutor Mark Dennis QC said: "There is no suggestion that his wife wanted to end her life prematurely, nor had she encouraged the defendant to act as he did." The day before she was found dead nurses found her "typically upbeat and in positive mood" during a home visit. However, Mungall was "reluctant to accept outside help" and had failed to accept his wife would need palliative care at a local hospice, the court heard.
Mr Dennis added: "He developed a depressive illness which led him to snap on the morning of December." He said: "This was a deliberate killing. It was not assisted suicide, nor did it even come close to that. There is no evidence she asked that morning to be killed or asked the day before to be killed." Guardian
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