Star witness tells of blossoming love and tragic loss

If it was a trial, he’d have been the star witness.

But as his heartbreaking story emerged before an audience of lawyers, medics and reporters at his wife’s inquest, Praveen Halappanavar was simply a distraught husband.

Questions of huge ethical, legal, medical, and political importance wait to be answered about the death of his beloved Savita, but yesterday it was the little personal things which went to the heart of the matter.