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"I'd come to have concerns that Simon was not wanting me to be involved too much with the family anymore."After detailing a brief period of separation between the couple when their first child was an infant, Erin Patterson told the court that she and Simon Patterson struggled to work out their disagreements.
"If we had any problems at all it was… we couldn't communicate well when we disagreed about something," she said."We would just feel hurt and not know how to resolve it."She also told the court about the traumatic birth of her first child in 2009, less than a year before the couple's first break.
"He started to go into distress and they lost his heartbeat," she said.Her voice choking up, she explained doctors performed an emergency caesarean to get her son out quickly.
When he was ready to go home, Ms Patterson said she discharged herself from hospital against medical advice as she didn't want to remain there alone.
The jury has heard that Ms Patterson discharged herself from hospital against medical advice in the days after the fatal lunch, which prosecutors earlier pointed to as evidence that she was not unwell.In May 1984, Mr Williams was told by the MOD that both his and his brother-in-law's pension "are correct" and the disparity was due to "a pay rise for CPO's [Chief Petty Officers] in the intervening two years which is reflected in the basic pension awarded".
He continued to fight his case throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.In 1998, the Armed Forces Personnel Administration Agency told Mr Williams that in the period between the two phases, "changes were made [to the military pension] but these changes were not retrospective" and that his pension reflected his "full and correct entitlement".
Over the years Mr Williams has been supported by some of Stroud's MPs.In 2019, Labour MP David Drew wrote to Penny Mordaunt, the Defence Secretary at the time, to highlight Mr Williams' case, believing he was the victim of "an injustice" and had been "unfairly treated".