The 61-year-old told Huntingdon Crown Court that the couple’s elder son, Jamie, had his driving test on June 25 and left that morning, while their younger son, Oliver, was at school.
The defendant said he drove to Tesco, intending to get French sticks and pate to ‘celebrate’ after Jamie’s driving test.
He said he realised while at the supermarket that he had forgotten his wallet, returned home to look for it and found his wife in the garden. ‘I saw Diane just crumpled on the floor,’ he said.
Stewart, giving evidence as his two sons listened from the public gallery, said: ‘The first thing I did was try to get her in the recovery position.
‘That was hard. I couldn’t get her legs out from under her.’
He said he ‘tried to clear her mouth’, adding: ‘How do you describe it… sick, just a mess, basically froth.’
Amjad Malik QC, defending, asked Stewart: ‘Was she breathing?’ He replied: ‘I don’t know, but I didn’t think so at that point.’
Stewart said he ‘put her on her back to put her in the position for CPR’ and then did ’30 compressions and then mouth to mouth’.
Mr Malik asked: ‘A really silly question – have you any idea how long that took?’ Stewart said: ‘The straight answer is no. At the end of it I was exhausted.’
Stewart said a doctor and a nurse lived in the house opposite theirs. ‘I didn’t ring 999, I went over to them to try to get help,’ he said.
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‘Diane was still lying there so I tried CPR again,’ he said. ‘More froth came out. Because of the froth I thought she was breathing at that stage.
‘I thought she was still alive.’ Asked how long he did CPR for, he said: ‘I don’t know. I know when I finished that I was worn out.
”That’s when I went off again and made the 999 call.’
Man jailed for life for murdering his fiancee tells court he was ‘in love’
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