An 87-year-old British man has been arrested on suspicion of 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 his apartment in Paleo Faliro, about 6 kilometres 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 reported.
When he thought she was dead, the 87-year-old man allegedly told a neighbor on a different floor what he had done and they called the police.
Officers reportedly found the woman still alive and lying naked on the apartment bed.
Pictured: Paleo Faliro, about 6km west of Athens city centre, where the incident allegedly took place (file photo)
Pictured: Flisvos Beach on the seafront of Paleo Faliro in Greece (archive image)
She was transferred to Janeio Hospital for treatment. Her condition is currently unknown.
This 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, suffocated his cancer-stricken wife Janice with a pillow in December 2021 before attempting suicide by drug overdose.
Mr Hunter told the court in Paphos how his wife had “cried and begged” for him to end her life and “set her free” as she endured agonising pain from blood cancer.
And after refusing her pleas for six weeks, he suffocated her in December 2021 and then attempted suicide with a drug overdose.
He was put on trial for murder, but last year judges dismissed the charge and convicted him of manslaughter.
Hunter was sentenced to two years but was released after Cypriot authorities deemed he had already served his sentence 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” take his wife’s life unless she 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 covered his wife’s mouth and nose with his hands and said he finally decided to grant her wish after she became “hysterical”.
