A man was captured saying that he killed his wife during a chilling 999 call during last night's final episode of BBC's Ambulance.
The BAFTA-winning documentary series saw call handler Frank take the harrowing call, which left viewers horrified.
Frank tried to calmly arrange help as the caller said that he wasn't able to cope with caring for his elderly wife.
The man told him that he killed his bed-bound wife with a lump of iron.
"I've killed my wife," he said, opening the call.
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999 operator Frank replied: "You've killed your wife? Right, tell me exactly what has happened."
"She can't walk, incontinent and I can't cope. So I have killed her," he replied.
Frank asked whether he was with the patient, to which the man said yes. Asking how old she was, he replied that she was 86.
The 99 operator asked: "Were any weapons involved?"
"Only a lump of iron," the man replied.
Asked whether there was any serious bleeding, he replied: "Not really."
Questioned about where she was, the man revealed that she was in the bedroom but would not go to her with the phone.
Frank asked: "What's stopping you from going to her?"
The man replied: "What do you want to know?"
"I just want to try and help her," the 999 operator responded.
The caller said: "She's dead."
999 operator Frank said: "She's dead? OK, we are sending you some help right away, we are going to get there as quickly as we can, OK?"
The caller later added: "There's a little girl's party next door, don't use sirens and spoil it.
"She's dead, that's all there is."
Viewers later saw Frank taking a quiet moment to himself to gather his thoughts as paramedic Justin reflected on the impact that difficult calls have on staff.
He said: "No one can do this job for any length of time and not come away a little bit a changed person.
"They have heard things that most humans don't want to hear.
"I don't think anyone has the perfect emotional bullet proof vest. Something gets to you every now and again and it just tips you over the edge.
"I don't think you can ever fully detach yourself fully from what you hear on those telephone calls .
"I think you need to have that empathy, but then you move on, because there is always one more 999 call waiting."
