A mortgage dealer accused of murdering his spouse at their house advised medics he had final seen her alive and effectively half-hour earlier than he referred to as 999, a court docket has heard.
Robert Hammond has been accused of murdering his spouse, Sian, days after paying her life insurance coverage coverage.
Hammond, 47, referred to as the ambulance service at 1.50am on October 30 final 12 months and advised the operator he had discovered his 46-year-old spouse face down on the mattress and never respiration.
Air ambulance physician Abilius Wong was among the many medics who attended the couple’s house in Primes Nook, Histon, Cambridgeshire, arriving in a response automobile at 2.06am.
Dr Wong advised jurors on Wednesday: ‘In response to my reminiscence, he advised us he had final seen the affected person effectively about half-hour earlier than the 999 name was made.’
Robert Hammond (pictured) has been accused of murdering his spouse days after paying her life insurance coverage coverage
Sian Hammond (pictured) was pronounced useless at 2:35am following CPR efforts on the couple’s house in Primes Nook, Histon, Cambridgeshire
Prosecutors say Robert Hammond confronted a ‘surging mountain of debt and monetary pressures’ and had paid his spouse Sian’s life insurance coverage coverage updated days earlier than her demise.
A autopsy examination indicated Mrs Hammond had been strangled, prosecutor Christopher Paxton KC earlier advised the trial at Cambridge Crown Court docket.
He denies the homicide of his spouse.
Vital care paramedic Sally Boor, who attended within the automotive with Dr Wong, was requested by defence barrister Karim Khalil KC if Hammond might ‘actually have mentioned 30 to 60 and also you famous the primary bit and never the second bit’.
She replied that it was ‘unlikely however doable’.
Ms Boor recalled that in CPR, blood had come up by one of many tubes inserted by medics into Mrs Hammond’s mouth.
‘It is not typical for it to occur at such an early stage,’ she mentioned, including: ‘It usually happens after 20 to half-hour of resuscitation.’
She mentioned she had been advised that Mrs Hammond had earlier taken diazepam, that was not her personal, ‘as a result of she was excited and nervous about her daughter getting back from Switzerland later that day’.
A autopsy examination indicated Mrs Hammond had been strangled, prosecutor Christopher Paxton KC earlier advised the trial at Cambridge Crown Court docket (pictured)
Emergency care assistant Carl Clifton, who additionally attended the scene, was requested by prosecutor Mr Paxton if there was ‘ever any signal of life’.
‘No, there was not,’ he mentioned, agreeing that Mrs Hammond was pronounced useless at 2.35am following CPR efforts.
He mentioned that eight medics attended the deal with to attempt to save Mrs Hammond.
The trial continues.
