– Army veteran and his wife die in tragic ‘suicide pact’ after becoming ‘too poor to live through the winter’ (Daily Mail, Nov 9, 2012):
- Every month the couple walked 12 miles to a soup kitchen to get free food
- Charity said they ‘slipped through the net’
- Mark and Helen Mullins kept food in plastic bags in their garden because they couldn’t afford a fridge
- Driven to despair at having to live off £57.50 a week
- Poverty-stricken pair found dead at home last Friday