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   Leigh Park man, 81, with dementia admits killing his wife   
      
   Peter Beaver arriving at Winchester Crown Court yesterday   
      
   Updated on the   
   28 October   
   2014   
   09:11   
   Published 28/10/2014 07:31   
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   AN 81-YEAR-OLD man has admitted stabbing his wife to death at their home.   
      
   Annie Beaver, 81, was found by police at the house the couple shared at   
   Sherfield Avenue in Leigh Park, on 23 November last year.   
      
   Officers had been called to the property just before 6am.   
      
   Mrs Beaver (pictured) was pronounced dead at the scene. She died of multiple   
   stab wounds.   
      
   Her husband Peter, who suffers from dementia, had pleaded not guilty to   
   murdering Mrs Beaver during an earlier plea and case management hearing at   
   Winchester Crown Court.   
      
      
   Yesterday he pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the day that his trial was due   
   to start.   
      
   Mr Beaver, who used a walking stick, sat in front of the glass-panelled dock   
   with a solicitor during the short hearing after being granted permission to do   
   so by Mr Justice Teare.   
      
   He sat quietly and spoke only to enter his not guilty plea to murder but   
   guilty plea to manslaughter.   
      
   The charges had to be put to Mr Beaver twice.   
      
   Mr Justice Teare said that Beaver's responsibility for his actions in killing   
   his wife had been 'substantially diminished'.   
      
   Addressing Mr Justice Teare, Kerry Maylin, prosecuting, said of Beaver's   
   guilty plea to manslaughter: 'That is an acceptable plea, bearing in mind the   
   psychiatric evidence and also the evidence as a whole that the crown have been   
   able to review.   
      
   'As I understand it, the psychiatrists are all in agreement that while Peter   
   Beaver suffers from dementia it is not a form of illness that can be treated   
   suitably under a Mental Health Act disposal.   
      
   'Therefore, it is perhaps the most appropriate way to adjourn this matter to   
   allow a full pre-sentence report.'   
      
   The court heard psychiatrists have not recommended that Mr Beaver should be   
   given a hospital order.   
      
   Mr and Mrs Beaver had lived together for 40 years.   
      
   The court heard that the couple's grandaughter had cared twice a week for Mrs   
   Beaver.   
      
   Mr Beaver, who is still living at his home in Sherfield Avenue, was released   
   on bail for a pre-sentence report to be prepared.   
      
   He is due to be sentenced at Winchester Crown Court on a date to be fixed.   
      
      
   http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/leigh-park-man-81-with-de   
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