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Videos can use content-based copyright law contains reasonable use Fair Use ( MAVIS Eccleston held her beloved husband's hand tightly and reminded him of their first date, 60 years ago, as he took his last breaths beside her. The couple were both in hospital after trying to kill themselves in a suicide pact - and as Mavis, 80, reached the part about their first kiss, her husband Dennis, 81, passed away. "My dad just slipped away listening to my mum talking about their first kiss. It was the end of a 60-year love romance," the pair's daughter Joy Munns, 54, recalls. "It was so touching the way he went." Mavis and Dennis, who was in the agonising final stages of terminal cancer, had overdosed on sleeping pills and painkillers at their Staffordshire bungalow after vowing "to go" together. They left behind a scrawled suicide note, which trailed off as Mavis fell unconscious. But tragically for the great-gran, who survived the joint suicide bid in February 2018, her husband's death in hospital the next day wasn't the end of their story. As their three children - including Joy - watched in horror, Mavis was arrested in her dressing gown and slippers while still in hospital and later charged with Dennis's murder. After spending 30 hours in a cell, where she couldn't bring herself to use the toilet, she was forced to endure a two-week trial - which ultimately ended in her acquittal. UK law 'making criminals out of great-grans' Now, daughter Joy is calling for an inquiry into Britain's "outdated" assisted dying laws, saying: "A law is clearly not working if it makes criminals of innocent great-grandmothers." Assisting a suicide is currently illegal in the UK, punishable by up to 14 years in prison. And Joy believes, if the law didn't criminalise Brits like Mavis who help their dying loved ones to end their agony, her father's death would have been very different. "We could have all gone round to Dad's," she tells Sun Online. "He could have had a Wolves match playing and passed away peacefully, with no pain. Instead, it was a cold, lonely night. They must have been so afraid, so alone." A loving working-class family Mavis, a stay-at-home mum, and pit overman Dennis, who first met in 1958, had enjoyed a long and happy marriage, raising Joy and her older siblings Kevin and Lynne. "We were a good, honest, working class family," recalls Joy, now a married mum of two. "We used to have our meals together every night. "It was a very loving family. We weren't spoiled with riches, we were spoiled with love." When they reached retirement age, the couple often popped by Joy's house to take out her kids Ruth, now 23, and Shaun, 25. "They loved being gran and grandad," she says. 'Mum's actions, motivated purely by love, landed her in the dock': Family's call for assisted dying inquiry MAV
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