Jurors retire in trial of 80-year-old accused of husband´s `mercy killing´
(World News UK)

A jury has retired to consider verdicts on a pensioner accused of the `mercy killing` murder of her terminally ill husband. Mavis Eccleston, 80, denies the murder and manslaughter of Dennis Eccleston, who prosecutors claim was unaware he was taking a potentially lethal overdose of prescription medication before his death in February last year. A two-week trial at Stafford Crown Court has heard Mrs Eccleston was arrested...