Gerald Corrigan: Crossbow victim's partner 'woke to cries of pain'

Gerald Corrigan died three weeks after being shot outside his Anglesey home

A woman has told how she woke in the night to hear her partner shouting in pain after he was shot with a crossbow.

Gerald Corrigan, 74, was shot while fixing a satellite dish at his remote home on Anglesey last year.

A jury at Mold Crown Court was played a recorded police interview Marie Bailey, 65, gave in the days after the attack.

Terence Whall, 39, denies murder. He and Gavin Jones, 36, of High Street, Bangor, also deny arson and perverting the course of justice.

Martin Roberts, 34, of James Street, Bangor and Darren Jones, 41, of the Bryn Ogwen estate, Penrhosgarnedd were also on trial for arson and perverting the course of justice.

However, they changed their pleas to guilty to arson on Monday, with the other charges to lie on file.

Gavin Jones, Darren Jones, Martin Roberts and Terence Whall (clockwise from top left) have all been on trial

Ms Bailey told police she went to bed at about 21:00 BST on 19 April.

She said her partner, a retired college lecturer, told her "he was bleeding and I needed to get up".

"How he got himself up the stairs, I don't know," she said.

Ms Bailey rang emergency services twice.

"He was bleeding heavily," she said, "He was crying... he was shouting he was in pain."

She told police she was "quite disabled" and "it would have been very difficult for me to have helped him into the car".

At one point he said he felt like he was having a heart attack, she said.

"He was saying that he was... going to be bleeding to death soon," she told police.

This bolt is identical to the one Mr Corrigan was shot with, except for being 2in shorter

Ms Bailey also told the jury the couple had been the victims of a £250,000 fraud by a man who was growing cannabis at their home.

She said they had given the money to Wyn Lewis for three projects - developing their own property, renovating Mr Corrigan's mother's house, and buying land on Anglesey which they hoped to get planning permission for and sell at a profit.

Under cross-examination by Mr Whall's defence barrister, David Elias, she said they paid the money over 18 months without receiving receipts.

However, Ms Bailey said they "never got any benefit at all".

She also said she paid Mr Lewis £7,000 to buy a horse from Ireland, but saw nothing back.

After her partner was shot, she went to stay with Mr Lewis because her home was a crime scene, adding: "I was very vulnerable... I had nowhere to go."

Cannabis plants

But she said he asked her to keep information about their dealings from police and she felt "in danger" staying with him.

In the "weeks and days" up to the shooting their money had run out and Mr Corrigan had told Mr Lewis this, she said.

Ms Bailey also said Mr Lewis had grown cannabis plants in their outbuildings two years before the shooting and she had given him about £300 for fans and heaters to aid cultivation.

The plants were removed after Mr Corrigan found he was growing more than they thought he was and got "very angry".

She said Mr Lewis had taken advantage of the pair, who she described as "a boring couple" who kept themselves to themselves.

The jury has heard Mr Whall told police he was in a nearby field having a sexual encounter with a man, after he was linked to the scene by data from his partner's car.

Mr Whall is further charged with perverting the course of justice and conspiracy to commit arson involving a vehicle, amid allegations they conspired to set fire to a vehicle which was later found burnt out.

The trial continues.