A carer who said she suffocated her father with a plastic bag because of his "intolerable" multiple sclerosis has been found guilty of murder.
Claire Darbyshire, 36, said she killed her father Brian, 67, at their home in Wykeham Green, Dagenham, on September 2 2015 as part of a failed suicide pact.
She was found the next evening wandering around cliff tops in Kent, asking for help.
The Old Bailey jury unanimously found her guilty. She had denied murder.
Bed-ridden
Mr Darbyshire, a father-of-two, had developed MS in 1995 and lost his wife Lynn in 2008.
His daughter had become his full-time carer when he became bed-ridden in 2014.
Prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC said Ms Darbyshire had come to an "agreement" with her father that they would kill themselves; because of his condition and because "she would have nothing to live for once her father had gone".
However, jurors heard that Mr Darbyshire had never expressed suicidal thoughts or complained about being in pain to nurses who visited him.
Mr Rees said a woman who worked in a jewellery shop where Ms Darbyshire volunteered had noticed she was "more and more stressed" over time and complained about having to look after her father.
After killing him she took a train to Dover. She was found the next day on the White Cliffs by a National Trust worker.
Mr Darbyshire's body was found by police on 10 September, eight days after the killing, after a neighbour raised the alarm.
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