lovely man and a wonderful husband?

[Lweji]

I have just come across this news
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10065584/Scientist-behind-Dolly-the-sheep-killed-himself-by-mistake-in-drunken-fury.html

Briefly, the guy came home drunk, drank some more, picked a drunken fight with his wife, threatening to kill himself with a knife, breaking a window and finally hanging himself in the bedroom.

"She said his behaviour that night was "atypical" but she had seen it before."

And "After the hearing, Mrs Campbell said: "He was a lovely man and a wonderful husband.""
I cringed at this.

It reminded me so much of some threads here. :(

Poor woman.

God, have just read that article and the last line almost reads like it's a deliberate ironic joke on the part of the journalist. It has a punchline quality to it that reads like you're expected you to laugh wryly, although I don't think that was the writer's intention.

Absolutely horrific to think of what that woman's life must have been like with her "wonderful man".

I'm wondering, aside from the obviously unique element of actually succeeding in killing himself, how it was 'atypical' if she'd seen it before.

Maybe atypical in that it wasn't normal for him to do this as matter of course. Maybe he had only done it once before?

She has also lost her husband. I hardly think she's glad he's dead.