Overview
- Hunter’s daughter confirmed late Wednesday that the 78-year-old died in a Cypriot hospital after being admitted this week with a reported urinary tract infection.
- A Paphos court convicted Hunter of manslaughter in 2023 after finding he suffocated his wife Janice in December 2021, with testimony that she had been suffering terminal blood cancer and had asked him to end her life.
- Judges sentenced Hunter to two years in prison but credited time served and released him in the summer of 2023, after which he remained in Cyprus near his wife’s grave.
- Police evidence at the 2023 trial showed Hunter attempted to take his own life after the killing and that officers were alerted after Interpol notified local police following his contact with relatives.
- Cyprus’ attorney general had appealed both the conviction and the sentence and further hearings were scheduled, a process whose status and next steps are now uncertain following Hunter’s death and which keeps debate over assisted dying in the public eye.