With the couple’s son turning 15 around the same time Sian was dying, Peston described needing to “get on” and be there for the couple’s son and Peston’s step-son – Sian’s son from a previous marriage, in an interview with the Daily Mail.

In the same interview, Peston described how further tragedy struck at Christmas just months after Sian’s death when the family home was burgled and Sian’s rings, which he had been saving for her two boys, were taken.

Shortly afterwards, Peston developed reactive arthritis and became so unwell he had to be hospitalised.

He put his sudden bout of illness due to the stress he was under at that time.