Grandmother who suffocated her terminally ill former partner 'who was getting on her nerves' is spared jail after judge likens death to mercy killing
Sunday, May 19, 2013 - 07:00
in Health & Medicine
A pensioner who killed her ex-partner because he was ‘getting on her nerves’ walked free yesterday after a judge likened her actions to a mercy killing. Joyce Evans, 69, put a Tottenham Hotspur carrier bag over the head of retired soldier Colin Ballinger before thr …