'My bedridden wife pleaded with me to kill her' TheMercurySA
DURBAN - Nundkumaran Poonusamy Pillay, 64, pleaded guilty in the Durban High Court before Judge Shyam Gyanda on Wednesday.
Pillay said they spoke of their son who had died of cancer and of their families who would not miss them when they died.Pillay said he first tried to suffocate her but she fought him. Pillay said he stabbed her once in her throat. “I never slit her throat. I stayed with her, holding her hand until she took her last breath. I cried as I watched her pass away.The court heard that the couple were together for 45 years. Pillay said their only income was their pension grants.“My wife was bedridden for almost three years and I was taking care of her on my own. I did everything for my wife. I didn’t mind taking care of my wife because I loved her, I still do.
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