100-year-old man spared prison after killing wife in ‘act of love’
Bernard Heginbotham wept as the court was told how the couple’s 67 years of “joyous” marriage had come to such a tragic end.
Retired butcher Heginbotham pleaded guilty with diminished responsibility to the manslaughter of his wife, Ida, at the Kepplegate residential home near Blackpool, Lancashire in north-west England, on April 1.
