Corrie Simon: My wife was saved by NHS
Simon and Emma CORONATION Street star Simon Gregson has praised the “brilliant” NHS for saving his wife after her 12th miscarriage.
Emma Gleave was rushed to hospital last September with a ruptured ectopic pregnancy.
Appearing with Simon, 43, on ITV’S Lorraine, she said: “The staff at Wythenshawe Hospital absolutely saved my life.”
Simon, who plays Steve Mcdonald in the soap added: “The surgeon said another couple of hours and she very possibly may have died.
“I think it’s great to be able to help people understand how brilliant the staff at the NHS are.”
The couple have sons Alfie, 10, Harry, eight, and two-year-old Teddy. Victims’ family yesterday A MAN yesterday admitted the brutal knife killings of an elderly couple in their home.
Thomas Scott Mcentee, 41, pleaded guilty in court almost a year to the day of the attack.
The defendant was originally charged with the murder of Michael and Marjorie Cawdery in Portadown, Co Armagh.
But yesterday he admitted their manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
The couple, who were both 83, died in their Upper Ramone Park home on May 26 last year.
After Mcentee admitted to the double manslaughter, the couple’s son-in-law Charles Little welcomed the plea and said “it has taken a lot of pressure off the family”.
The accused appeared at Craigavon Crown Court, sitting in Belfast, where he was flanked by two members of staff from Knockbracken Healthcare Clinic.
Defence counsel Kieran Mallon told Mr Justice Colton: “I have an application to make this morning.”
He said after receiving two medical reports on Mcentee, “in light of that, I have an application that the accused be rearraigned on all counts”.
A total of nine charges were put to him by the clerk of the court.
When asked to enter a plea to two murder charges, Mcentee said: “Not guilty of murder, guilty of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.”
Crown barrister Peter Irvine told the court: “Those pleas are accepted by the prosecution.”
Mcentee, with an address at the secure Shannon Unit in Knockbracken, also pleaded guilty to a further five offences.
These included breaking into Mr and Mrs Cawdery’s home with a knife and stealing a bank card and car keys, indecently exposing himself, stealing their Renault Kangoo and causing damage to it, and driving dangerously.
In addition he admitted two counts of theft, and also pleaded guilty to breaking into a house at Derrybeg Lane in Newry, Co Down, and stealing a key on May 25.
Following Mcentee’s admissions, Mr Mallon asked that pre-sentence reports be compiled, in addition to the psychiatric reports that have already been prepared.
Also ordered were victim impact reports, which will set out the effects the killings have had on Mr and Mrs Cawdery’s family.
Noting this will be a “difficult sentencing exercise”, Mr Justice Colton said he would hear the plea on June 22 before he returned Mcentee, who is originally from Kilkeel, to the Shannon Clinic.