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'Murder remains murder': Terminally ill Canberra man jailed for nine years for murdering his 92yo wife
Donald Morley, who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness, has been sentenced to nine years in jail after suffocating his 92-year-old wife, Jean Morley, in their Fisher home last year.
www.abc.net.au
- In short: Donald Morley has been sentenced to nine years in jail after suffocating his 92-year-old wife Jean in their Fisher home last year.
- Justice Mossop said Morley was not motivated by malice, and noted a doctor's assessment that with both declining in health and Morley struggling to care for his wife he had "been unable to see a way through.
Donald Morley, 93, pleaded guilty after suffocating Jean Morley, 92, in her bed in July last year.
It was the last act in a marriage which had lasted 69 years.
The crime was discovered later by a health worker.
"That's my angel," Morley told the woman about Mrs Morley, before police and ambulance officers arrived.
The court had earlier heard Morley has between three and six months to live.
He watched today's sentencing via video link in a hospice where he is being treated for terminal cancer.