“By all accounts you were devoted to each other, described by others as ‘joined at the hip’,” Judge Simon said.<\/p>\n
“You and Margaret both worked for a living and in retirement lived in Dunstable without financial or other worry.”<\/p>\n
Judge Simon had to consider whether Worby believed he had made a suicide pact with Mrs Worby – and what his level of responsibility for her death was.<\/p>\n
The judge concluded that evidence showed Worby had genuinely believed there was agreement and his “responsibility” was therefore in the “lower category”. <\/p>\n
“[I] am not in a position to make a finding to the criminal standard as to the exact nature of any discussion and\/or agreement between yourself and Margaret,” said the judge.<\/p>\n
“In the absence of convincing evidence to the contrary, I must pass sentence on the basis that at the very least you genuinely believed that there was an agreement with Margaret.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“By all accounts you were devoted to each other, described by others as ‘joined at the hip’,” Judge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-317517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}