Son, 55, 'stabbed his elderly mother to death then hanged himself after wrongly believing he had cancer and wouldn't be able to cope'

A son stabbed his own 86-year-old mother to death then hanged himself, writing that he was unable to 'cope with life anymore', an inquest heard. Stephen Dohoney, 55, killed Ethel Dohoney in the home they shared after wrongly concluding that he had cancer, and that his mother would not be able to survive without his care. Investigators called to the scene of the murder in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester last November found a note Dohoney had written explained why he 'sent her to heaven'.

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