He slit her throat then unsuccessfully tried to kill himself. In an exclusive interview with the Manchester Evening News at his home in Hale, Mr Mansfield says the act 'went against every fibre of my body', adding: 'I ran round to the front of the chair. I said 'What have I done?''
A husband who killed his terminally ill wife in a desperate suicide pact has told 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.
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'. 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 garden the following day.
It was cold so they both put their coats on and, after Mr Mansfield had locked up the house on Canterbury Road, made their way down to the bottom of the garden where two chairs were arranged next to each other. He asked 'Are you ready?', to which his wife replied 'Yes, I won't make a noise'. He then walked behind the chair she was sat in and slit her throat with a Stanley knife.
Mr Mansfield then tried to take his own life, but passed out before waking up in the kitchen the next morning. He called 999, was arrested and told police everything. But the case could be reduced to manslaughter if they believed it was 'more likely than not' that the suicide pact was a joint agreement between the couple, which Mrs Mansfield had voluntarily agreed to and that her husband had made a genuine attempt on his own life.
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