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the week before the incident my husband was involved in a incident at work where a close friend sustained spinal injury involing machinary my husband had passed being the health and safety officer on site,on the night of the incident it wasmy birthday and we had been out for a drink but neither of us were drunk,he was breathalized on arrest and was 78,which to my knowledge is twice the legal limit roughly 4 pints.I can even tell you how it happened ,it happened in a split second,I sustained a small bruise to my eye,I did call the police as I was scared,t was all over in a second and my husband was in bed when the police arrived.after 2 days I signed a retraction statement,but when he appeared in court I thought It would make a good impression if I went with him,I was spoken to by somone there an they implied that i would be issued with a witness summons and to volutary give evidence at the trail would be better,at this point i was crying and just agreed,however I have never wanted to give evidence and my husbands solicitor has said tehy only want me to appear as they have no evidence.I love my husband and i know this wasa result of stress at work he also has issues concerning his children that dont live with us,im not making excuses for his behaviour but want to get this out of the way if he is found guilty anyway so be it,but im finding this is affecting my life more than the actual incident,iam a student nurse and have exams at the time of the trial so this could affect my course,I am not the sort of person to deliberatly waste police time but on reflection I think not giving evidence would cause me less upset and stress just at a time when I dont need it,