'Devoted carer' sentenced for helping sick husband die

Kylie Ellina Truswell-Mobbs, a devoted carer for her terminally ill husband, faced a murder charge but had it dropped and was only charged with assisting suicide. She pleaded guilty to the lesser offence in the Brisbane Supreme Court. Truswell-Mobbs, 52, was facing a possible lengthy jail term for giving her husband, David Ronald Mobbs, 56, a lethal cocktail of drugs.

Mr Mobbs had an aggressive form of motor neurone disease and was bedridden by December 2023, unable to speak or move. He pleaded to die on December 5, and his wife administered the fatal overdose on December 6. Truswell-Mobbs was cheered and hugged by family and supporters as she left court. Her sentence was suspended immediately due to time served.