Gillian March, from Caterham, Surrey, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis back in 1984 and when life became too hard for her, her husband David March gave up his work in advertising to care for his wife after her illness led to her being confined to a wheelchair.

He started working as a landscape gardener to be able to return to their home and do the cooking and cleaning.
Mrs March wrote in her diary of a desire to end her life many years before she actually attempted suicide for the first time. Each, out of two times, it was unsuccessful because her husband would find her and call the ambulance.

However, when she tried to commit a suicide for the third time, her husband her helped her by tying up a plastic bag she had previously put over her head.

Mr. March admitted that he had helped her wife end her life.
He was first charged with murder but his guilty plea to the lesser offence was accepted when it was determined that she may have not survived even if he hadn’t tightened the string.

His nine-month jail sentence was suspended and he was assigned 50 hours' unpaid work at the Sutton and Croydon MS Therapy Centre.
The judge who ran the case said that Mr. March showed his deep low for his wife and unselfishness regarding the whole situation.

Mr. March had no comments after the trial was over and just wanted to be left alone so that he could go on with his life.