An 87-year-old British man has been arrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of his ‘sick and bedridden’ wife in Greece.
The pensioner allegedly tried to suffocate the 89-year-old woman with a pillow in their apartment in Paleo Faliro, around 6km west of Athens city centre, yesterday.
The man told police he tried to kill her because she ‘asked him to and wanted to die’, local media has reported.
When he thought she was dead, the 87-year-old allegedly told a neighbour on a different floor what he had done and the police were called.
Officers reportedly found the woman still alive and lying on the bed in the apartment naked.
Pictured: Paleo Faliro, around 6km west of Athens city centre, where the incident allegedly took place (file picture)
Pictured: Flisvos beach on the Paleo Faliro promenade in Greece (file picture)
She was taken to the Janeio hospital for treatment. Her condition is currently unknown.
It comes after British pensioner, David Hunter was jailed for 19 months in 2022 for killing his terminally-ill wife in Cyprus.
The 76-year-old, originally from Northumberland, smothered his cancer-stricken wife Janice with a pillow in December 2021 before trying to kill himself with a drugs overdose.
Mr Hunter told the court in Paphos how his wife had ‘cried and begged’ him to end her life and ‘liberate’ her as she endured agonising pain from blood cancer.
And after refusing her pleas for six weeks he suffocated her in December 2021 and then tried to kill himself with a drugs overdose.
He was put on trial for murder but last year judges dismissed this charge and convicted him of manslaughter.
Hunter was sentenced to two years, but was freed after Cyprus authorities deemed he had already served his time in Nicosia prison.
David Hunter, 76, was released from a Cypriot jail on July 31 last year after spending 19 months behind bars for killing his terminally-ill wife
Hunter said he would ‘never in a million years’ have taken his wife’s life unless she had asked him to
The 76-year-old said he would ‘never in a million years’ have taken his wife’s life unless she had asked him to.
He showed the court how he held his hands over his wife’s mouth and nose and said he eventually decided to grant her wish after she became ‘hysterical’.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
