Danny Cross listened helplessly as his wife was killed at their home.
Hearing his wife scream in the background while they were on the phone, Cross immediately rang emergency services to tell them she was being attacked.
Dan was on a business trip in Hull, while his wife was holding the fort at home with their children in Hertfordshire. But it was too late to save her and when a police officer told him his wife had been brutally killed , he fell onto him sobbing his heart out.
It had started out like any other day. Earlier that evening Dan received a call from his wife, Nicola who was looking after the kids who were off from nursery and school and weren't feeling well.
His wife had noticed a strange man banging on her front door trying to get in and called the police,