It’s been a little over a month since Daniel Stirling lost his partner Sarah Paino in a horror car crash in Hobart.
He was finishing off the early shift at local bakery Banjo’s when police came to break the news a stolen vehicle with four teenagers on board had slammed into Sarah’s car.
“My body just went numb and it just clicked in my head…and I just said, ‘she was pregnant’,” Daniel told Melissa Doyle in an exclusive interview on Channel 7’s Sunday Night program last night.
Just hours earlier 24-year-old Sarah, who was seven months pregnant at the time, had dropped him off before driving into the night with the couple’s toddler in the back seat.
Ordinarily, Daniel would have gotten a lift from a friend but that morning it had fallen through.
He said she was her “happy self”.
“She should have been in bed, yeah, she should have been in bed,” he said.