Retired civil engineer smothered wife with cling film to end her suffering

A retired civil engineer who smothered his ‘beloved’ wife to death with cling film to end her suffering from Parkinson’s disease was spared jail today (thurs). Martin Rudin, 82, admitted killing Gabriella Rudin, 75, in an ‘act of mercy’ at their home in Melvin Way, Histon, Cambridgeshire on New Year’s Eve 2022. Mrs Rudin, a retired teacher, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2019 and had told her family she wanted to die, the Old Bailey heard. Six days after…