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OAP who smothered ill wife is spared jail
3:29pm Friday 10th October 2008
A PENSIONER who admitted killing his ill wife while she was being treated in Lewisham Hospital has been spared jail.
Retired civil servant Sidney Norton smothered 84-year-old Betty Norton with a pillow as she lay in bed, the Old Bailey heard.
She had been taken to hospital with stomach pains but also suffered from dementia and the effects of a stroke.
Mrs Norton was found dead on November 2 last year, four days after she was admitted to hospital.
Norton, her sole carer, feared he would soon be unable to look after his wife.
The 86-year-old was charged with murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Today (October 10) he was given a nine-month jail sentence suspended for one year.
The couple have one son, Alan, and lived at the same house in St Donatts Road, New Cross, for most of their married life.
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Lizzielooloo, Shooters Hill says...
4:27pm Fri 10 Oct 08
AR2048, says...
4:48pm Fri 10 Oct 08
It is reported that Mr Norton was the sole carer for his wife and I wonder why this poor man was so left to cope alone.
Erastus, Bexley says...
5:00pm Fri 10 Oct 08
It reflects a sad state of affairs in our society.
Erastus
Biscuit, Bromley says...
6:26pm Fri 10 Oct 08
Jessiem, Sydenham says...
4:39pm Fri 17 Oct 08
I feel for the poor guy i really do it's really hard when you are watching a love one in so much pain who don't even no who you are.
People who are in these situations need more help from the state won't happen thou will it
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Erastus, Bexley says...
3:43pm Fri 10 Oct 08
For once a judge made the RIGHT decision.
May he live out the rest of his days in peace with the knowledge that his wife is not suffering.
Erastus