After Man's Suicide, Ex Accused of His Murder

By Evann Gastaldo

November 11, 2017

In September 2015, Berlinah Wallace, upset that her five-year relationship with Mark van Dongen was ending, allegedly threw sulfuric acid over him as he lay in bed at her apartment in Bristol, England.

Fifteen months later, van Dongen, 29—who lost a leg, ear, and eye (as well as most of the vision in his other eye) and was paralyzed from the neck down and forced to communicate through an alphabet board—chose to end his life in a Belgian euthanasia clinic.

Now Wallace, 48, is charged with his murder, the BBC reports. During her trial this week—she denies the charges—the court heard from van Dongen's father, who says his son's condition had worsened in the weeks prior to his Jan. 2 death, and he told his father, "My life has come to nothing and there is nothing left."

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