'Mercy killing' husband convicted
Wednesday, 9 May 2007

A husband who killed his wife after she begged him to help her die has been convicted of murder.

Frank Lund, 58, admitted suffocating wife Patricia, 65, with a plastic bag and a pillow at their home in New Brighton, Merseyside, last September.

He denied murder on the grounds that Mrs Lund had persuaded him to help her die after her life was made miserable by an irritable bowel condition.

Lund was convicted at Liverpool Crown Court and will be sentenced on 24 May. the rest