Journalist drowned

wife in bath

A jo.urnalist who found .the pressure of vork too great and ,uffirid' .frtoin r. hal,ucinations doiW'r-his inf 'the bath and thenwivied s* tinies to kill bimself, it was stated at St 'A%ans'-Crown Court yesterday. - rJhs . 'Kay, aged 33, a ,re,po4r:wit-.The Sun, pleaded !nd.t..gt, ;tQ.muilrder. His plea df-',iAA t, m. ,tianslaughter on 'the,-> gtouiid ':,o£'-.':dininished ,,ponsibility wast'`ccepted by

tfie prosecution. -

Mr Justice Thesierc.Qirdered Mr Kay to be 'aodmitted -for treatment at Friern HVositaI, CBarnet. - -'

:-Mr Kay "of Asxon -Ro6d

hrtiet, -was -an industriRa reporter and dUd for promotidi to industrial e etoi 6 ter-

Mr John MatIeW C,' for. the 'ene,,ndel d said hr 'Laihb, ,the, editroiaIdiatedor.of- Tlie Sun ,sent a '1it-irlto th''ecouirt s,avirig that Mi lWy cold have .a'job on the Wp'er. yheu.

E&r.:..he wait azreugh an'd ijhbne,vor he '*'1s,.' alb3Vwetl to :tak6 it.

Mr.'Dniel Hoilis, Q "forithd pros&ution,-.said tat- Mr kt

married his Japanese wife, Harue, in September, 1976.

The marriage was happy, but Mr Kay had been' depressed after attending. the TUC con* ference in Blackpool last Sep. tember. "He and his. wife had a bath togethter as they some tilnes did, and he, thinking it would be better to end it all, pushed her head under water."