GOOD Morning Britain host Charlotte Hawkins was forced to step in after a guest described how he killed his wife on live TV.
Graham Mansfield, 73, walked free from court after a judge ruled he acted “out of love” in taking the life of cancer-stricken Dyanne Mansfield, 71.
Graham and Dyanne Mansfield pictured when they were together
He walked free from court last week
The moment Charlotte stepped in over the comments
Describing what happened on the ITV breakfast show, Graham said: “She’d had enough. It was as simple as that. She’d reached the end of her rope.
“All we can say is it was the most traumatic period of our lives. It’s something you would not wish on anyone.
“Dyanne asked me to kill her…”
Charlotte was forced to step in after Graham gave away a key detail about the suicide.
She said: “Ok, we don’t want to go into details Graham at breakfast time, obviously, because it’s upsetting for people anyway and I know it’s a difficult thing for you to talk about.”
Mr Mansfield said his wife was told she had stage four lung cancer in October 2020, just weeks after they’d celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary.
When they returned home from the hospital, Mr Mansfield said the suicide pact was first raised.
Mrs Mansfield asked him if he would be willing to kill her if things got “too bad”.
He agreed “on one condition” – that he “would have to go with her”.
On the morning of March 24 last year, Mr Mansfield was found lying in a pool of blood at the couple’s home, while his wife’s body was slumped in a chair at the bottom of the garden.
Their last night together was spent “crying and telling each other how much we loved one another”.
And at around 5pm the next day Mrs Mansfield had a glass of red wine, while Mr Mansfield had a can of lager and a whisky and lemonade.
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.
Police and paramedics rushed to the property after Mansfield dialled 999 and told the operator he had killed his wife of 40 years at 9pm the previous day, before trying to kill himself.
On Thursday, a jury of ten men and two women took 90 minutes to find Mansfield not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter.
Mansfield was sentenced to two years in jail, suspended for two years.
Sentencing him, Mr Justice Goose told the defendant: “The circumstances of this case are a tragedy for you and are exceptional in the experiences of this court.
“You were under immense emotional pressure.
“I am entirely satisfied that you acted out of love for your wife.”
Outside court, an emotional Mansfield said his wife would be “fuming” that he has a criminal conviction.
He said: “The law needs to change. Nobody should have to go through what we went through.
“Unfortunately today my wife is not here. She shouldn’t have had to die in such barbaric circumstances, that’s what we had to do.
“As far as I’m concerned as soon as we can get some form of euthanasia with terminal illness, in our case, as a priority, the sooner that happens the better this country will be.”
He added: “Dyanne would be fuming now that I have got a conviction for doing something that she asked us to do. That I couldn’t live without her.”
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