Mohamed Samak, 42, told a murder trial at Worcester Crown Court on Friday that he was woken up at around 3am on July 1 last year by a scream from his wife Joanne Samak, 49, and went out onto the landing at their home in Chestnut Spinney, Droitwich Spa, to see her stabbing herself six times.
Asked by defence barrister John Jones KC why he had not told the operator that he had seen his wife stabbing herself, Samak said: “I tried to cover it because I was worried that I was going to take the blame for it and I panicked.”.
But when he called the emergency services at 4.10am, more than an hour after the incident, he told the call handler he had gone to the bathroom and decided to check on his wife, who slept in a separate bedroom, and found her slumped on the bed with a knife in her stomach.
He told the court he hoped that the emergency services would “bring her back to life” and body-worn camera footage from police officers at the scene captured him saying he didn’t know why his wife had died.
Samak said he was in shock and “crying and shivering” on the floor after the incident and when he finally called 999, the call handler told him to start CPR.
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