Veteran Broadcaster's Love Story Shattered by Dementia

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Just eight months ago, veteran newsreader John Suchet made the agonising decision to put his wife Bonnie, who suffers from dementia, into a care home.

Since then, the former ITN broadcaster, who still visits his wife once a week, has been battling to move on. He is selling the London flat they shared for 25 years to move nearer to his brother, the actor David Suchet, and has already sold the holiday home in south- west France which they adored.

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Veteran Broadcaster's Love Story Shattered by Dementia

He has sent many of Bonnie's clothes to the charity shop and has sorted through thousands of photographs.

"When I look at them I feel utterly miserable and dejected," says John, 66. "We used to joke that we'd look at them in our old age. I can't see a point when I'll never be able to look through those albums and smile."

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