TV star Leigh Arnold has told of the horror of discovering her two-and-a-half-week-old son dying in her sleeping fiance’s arms.
The former Clinic actress had become “anxious” about Flynn while on a night out for dinner with a friend in May 2013.
And the 34-year-old told an inquest of the moment she returned to her home in England to find fiancee Steve Davies asleep with Flynn lying in his arms, grey in the face.
She said: “I could tell by the colour of his face that something was wrong. I screamed an awful lot. I don’t remember much after that.”
Family: Leigh with Steve
Her fiancee then awoke to discover Leigh going crazy, before he tried to resuscitate Flynn, from a 999 operator’s instructions.
He added: “I awoke to find Leigh in hysterics. Flynn wasn’t himself. He was grey in the face.”
The inquest heard that the baby made “a gurgling noise” during the attempts to save his life but this was just air leaving Flynn’s body and he could not be saved.
He was rushed to hospital where it was declared he died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or cot death.
Earlier in the evening Leigh – who also starred in Deception – called home because she was “anxious about him”.
TV star: Leigh in Deception
She said: “I could hear him gurgling – happy gurgling. I knew they were having a lovely time.
“Flynn was a perfect baby. He was healthy and extremely loved every second of the day.”
Previously Leigh, who has another son, Hunter, aged two, had described it as being the “worst year” of her life and she wasn’t ready to go back to work after the trauma.
She will marry Steve this month in Ibiza after delaying the nuptials after Flynn’s death.
