Murder-accused pensioner David Hunter says wife begged to die, court hears
Giving evidence - at times in tears - her husband said she asked repeatedly for help to end her suffering but that he "just couldn't do it".Janice and David Hunter had been together for more than 50 years"In the last four or five weeks, she asked me to help and I said 'no' every day," he told the court."After 57 years together, I just couldn't do it. In the last week she just cried and just cried and begged me to help her. I didn't answer.
He told the court at one point she became "hysterical" and to calm her down he said he would help end her suffering even though he said he had no intention of doing so.However, on the day of her death, he said he had got up to make coffee and his wife was crying. Under cross-examination, Mr Hunter said he had been hoping for a "small miracle" to help his wife's health improve and that she would change her mind about wanting to die.
"I wanted her to change her mind. I kept saying it's not easy [to help someone die], you can't just do something like that.had told a doctor he had decided to end his wife's life but not tell her in case she changed her mind
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