{"id":414673,"date":"2022-12-05T13:04:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T13:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=414673"},"modified":"2022-12-05T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T13:22:19","slug":"uk-man-to-plead-guilty-to-manslaughter-in-wife-s-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/uk-man-to-plead-guilty-to-manslaughter-in-wife-s-death","title":{"rendered":"UK man to plead guilty to manslaughter in wife&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 of 2PAPHOS, Cyprus (AP) &#8212; Defense lawyers for a British man on trial for causing the death of his wife in Cyprus&#8217; coastal resort town of Paphos said Monday they&#8217;re hopeful the court will suspend any sentence it hands down to their client after he pleads guilty to manslaughter next week.Briton David Hunter faced a charge of premeditated murder in last year&#8217;s death of his wife, Janice, although his defense lawyers had asked Cyprus&#8217; attorney-general to charge the 75 year-old only with assisted suicide in order to keep him from serving time in prison &#8212; a request they said was denied. State Prosecutor Andreas Hadjikyrou said the court on Monday granted an adjournment until Dec. 13, when Hunter&#8217;s defense will also argue for mitigation. The court is expected to pass sentence a few days later, with defense lawyers hoping that will happen before Christmas.Although manslaughter carries a maximum life sentence, it&#8217;s unlikely Hunter will receive a long prison term,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAPHOS, Cyprus (AP) &#8212; Defense lawyers for a British man on trial for causing the death of his wife in Cyprus&#8217; coastal resort town of Paphos said Monday they&#8217;re hopeful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}