‘I felt a wave of terror,’ Teeton’s wife says as she describes moment she rushed to helppublished at 12:14 GMT
12:14 GMT
Lt Col Mark Teeton’s wife Eileen had told the court on Monday how she rushed to help a soldier lying on the ground – and then realised it was her husband.
After hearing cries for help while in her garden and rushing outside, Mrs Teeton pushed Anthony Esan off his victim before seeing he had a knife.
She said she “felt a wave of terror” and that she may need to run for her life, but he did not to go after her.
“I watched horrified by his continued savage attack,” Mrs Teeton said.
“I realised it was my husband on the ground and he was carving at his face and neck,” she continued.
She tried to shield her eldest daughter who had been having an ice cream, and arrived back to the scene where Teeton was in a “devastating” condition.
Mrs Teeton said she could “not stand by” seeing a soldier lying on the ground.
“But that wasn’t a soldier, that was Mark, my husband, a father, a brother, an uncle,” she added.
“We will live with this forever, the scars will fade but your attack will never be erased.”