Briton who killed terminally ill wife in Cyprus released after two years in prison

Mr Hunter's wife Janice was suffering from blood cancer and 'begged him'

Hunter's daughter, Lesley Cawthorne, said she was “uplifted and thrilled” by the release of her “dear dad.”

‌”The last 19 months have been a nightmare for our family but today we are starting to rebuild our lives.”

‌She said the sentence would allow her family to “finally mourn” her dead mother.

After talking to Hunter on the phone, Ms. added: “The conversation with my dad was the most amazing. I feel like my heart has come together again.”

Judges had previously found him not guilty on the more serious charge of voluntary manslaughter.

Hunter's legal team argued that he should be given a suspended sentence on case, which is the first in the country in a judicial proceeding.

Last week, his lawyer, Rica Pekri, said his motive was “to free his wife from everything she had to go through because of the state of her health.”

The court heard that it was Mrs. Hunter to die and her husband “felt nothing but love for her”.

Mr Hunter and daughter Leslie Cawthorne, who said that after being released, she felt “my heart came together again”;

Hunter, from Ashington, Northumberland, told a trial that lasted more than a year that his wife “wept and begged” him to kill himself.

He burst into tears when he said he would kill himself. “not once in a million years” took Mrs. Hunter's life, unless she asked him to.

He showed the court how he held his hands over his wife's mouth and nose, and said that in the end decided to grant her wish. after she went “hysterical”.

The court heard that he then tried to commit suicide by overdosing, but the medics arrived in time to save him.

Judge Michalis Drussiotis said the case was atypical, as Hunter took his wife's life “on the basis of a feeling of love, in order to save a man from his suffering caused by his illness.”

He repeated that “by taking a man's life, even with the intent to alleviate suffering is a crime.”

He denied the defense's motion for a stay of Hunter's imprisonment and said that an immediate prison term was “inevitable”.