I'll never forgive police for what they did in my hour of grief...

DOCTORS TOLD HUSBAND HIS BELOVED WIFE HAD DIED - MINUTES LATER COPS ARRIVED TO ARREST HIM FOR HER MURDER

- NICOLE WOOTTON-CANE

IN Alfred Gee's Stockport home, boxes are piled high as he prepares for moving.

The 87-year-old former soldier had spent many happy years at the property in High Lane with his wife of 60 years, Margaret.

She sadly passed away in June of this year aged 86 following a long illness - now Alfred says he feels unable to stay, haunted by the memory of the shocking moments he was I arrested for her murder.

In the early hours of June 24, a doctor from Stepping Hill hospital called Alfred to deliver the devastating news that his beloved wife had died. At the same time, five Greater Manchester Police officers banged on his door to detain him over suspicious bruising found on her body. He told the M.E.N. he barely had 10 minutes to process Margaret's death before officers handcuffed him and bundled him into a police van.

A spokesperson for GMP maintained they had 'sufficient grounds' to arrest Alfred, but did not intend to cause him distress. They added the force have written to him offering to meet.

Margaret's cause of death was later ruled as a pulmonary embolism by a coroner.