article_snippet.sent: London's Appeal Court heard how Julie Ronayne had been a 'secondary victim' of the incident and had suffered psychiatric injury caused by the shock of seeing his wife's new appearance.
article_snippet.sent: Julie Ronayne also described his wife's first two days in hospital as 'the worst days of my entire life'.
article_snippet.sent: Julie Ronayne said Julie Ronayne had been 'brought up not to complain' but had never fully recovered from the sight.
article_snippet.sent: Julie Ronayne added that Julie Ronayne had been left feeling tearful, overwhelmed, angry and powerless.
article_snippet.sent: The judge, who described Julie Ronayne as 'an honest and reliable witness', said: 'Julie Ronayne symptoms...were pathological and went beyond simply the distress and anger that a man would suffer due to the near terminal illness of a man .'
article_snippet.sent: Julie Ronayne argued that Julie Ronayne would not have suffered a sufficient level of shock to qualify for compensation.
article_snippet.sent: Julie Ronayne added that Julie Ronayne was visiting his wife in hospital and therefore would have expected his wife to look unwell.
article_snippet.sent: Mrs Ronayne went on to make a good recovery.