Wife fought to save husband in kayak accident

A BRAVE woman battled for almost three hours to keep her husband afloat after a kayaking accident off the south coast, an inquest heard yesterday.

Margaret Heneault told Cork City Coroner’s Court how she used ropes and her own paddles to keep her distressed husband Didier’s head above water after he fell from his kayak off Castletownshend in West Cork on May 30 last.

“I waited for hours and hours [for help to arrive],” she said in the witness box.