Briton, 87, has been arrested for attempted murder in Greece ‘after he tried to strangle his sick, bedridden wife, 89, with a pillow because she wanted to die’
An 87-year-old British man has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder his “sick and bedridden” wife in Greece.
The pensioner is said to have tried to strangle the 89-year-old woman with a pillow yesterday in their apartment in Paleo Faliro, about 6km west of Athens city centre.
The man told police he wanted to kill her because she “asked him to and wanted to die,” local media reported.
When he thought she was dead, the 87-year-old man told a neighbor on another floor what he had done, and police were called.
According to reports, officers found the woman alive and naked on the bed in the apartment.
Pictured: Paleo Faliro, about 6km west of Athens city centre, where the incident reportedly took place (file image)
Pictured: Flisvos beach on the Paleo Faliro promenade in Greece (file image)
She was taken to Janeio Hospital for treatment. Her condition is currently unknown.
This came after British pensioner David Hunter was sentenced to 19 months in prison in 2022 for the murder of his terminally ill wife in Cyprus.
The 76-year-old man, originally from Northumberland, suffocated his cancer-stricken wife Janice with a pillow in December 2021 before attempting suicide by taking a drug overdose.
Mr Hunter told the court in Paphos how his wife had ‘cried and begged’ him to end her life and ‘set her free’ as she suffered severe pain from blood cancer.
After rejecting her pleas for six weeks, he strangled her in December 2021 and attempted suicide by drug overdose.
He was tried for murder, but last year judges dismissed the charge and convicted him of manslaughter.
Hunter was sentenced to two years in prison, but was released after Cypriot authorities ruled that he had already served his sentence in Nicosia prison.
David Hunter, 76, was released from a Cypriot prison on July 31 last year after serving 19 months behind bars for the murder of his terminally ill wife
Hunter said he “never in a million years” would have taken his wife’s life unless she asked him to
The 76-year-old man said he “never in a million years” would have taken his wife’s life if she hadn’t 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”.