Saturday, December 11, 2010

'Your children are all dead': Boyfriend faces breaking tragic news to partner when she wakes from coma

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:35 PM on 10th December 2010

The boyfriend of a woman whose children were killed in a house blaze now faces the heartbreaking task of telling her they have perished.
Samantha Hudson, 27, has been in an induced coma since the fatal house fire on November 11 but is finally breathing on her own and expected to wake soon.
Still critically ill, she has no idea that her two sons William, nine, and AJ, five died with their sister Maddie, three, in the blaze at their home in Bridlington, East Yorkshire.

Heartbreaking news: Samantha Hudson, pictured with son AJ, has yet to find out that her children died in a blaze at their home last month

Miss Hudson's partner, Andy Martin, said: 'She will be distraught, she lived for her children. They were bundles of joy, all three of them.'
Mr Martin, 44, added: 'It's now a long waiting game until Sam is ready to be brought out of the coma. There has been some improvement in her condition.
'It would be nice to have Sam come round for Christmas, but then Christmas without the children is going to be a tough day.
'The only consolation for her is that the children went to sleep and never woke up.'
Mr Martin, from Driffield, East Yorkshire, was due to move in with Miss Hudson after Christmas and was planning to propose to her on January 18 - a year to the day they met.

Victim: William Hudson, nine, also died in the fire in Bridlington, East Yorkshire

The lorry driver is now throwing his energies into a charity he has launched to help victims of fire get back on their feet.
The Samantha Hudson Trust Fund will offer loans to families who have lost their possessions and Mr Martin is planning to hold a sponsored pull of an eight-tonne truck across the Humber Bridge next month.
He said: 'I hope to be able to offer short-term, interest-free loans to people who have lost everything in a fire, until the insurance can be sorted out for basics such as food and clothes.'
Mr Martin is encouraging people to get in touch to volunteer to pull the lorry and collect sponsorship money, as well as businesses to come forward to sponsor banners.
Miss Hudson, who is being treated at Scarborough General Hospital, was unable to attend the joint funerals of her three children which were held on November 30.
Neighbour Lesley Salisbury, 59, a prison nurse, described how the children looked like 'rag dolls' when they were brought out of the ravaged house immediately after the fire.
She said it was just before midnight when neighbours were woken by the home's smoke alarm and were horrified to see flames tearing through the living room window of the house.
Firemen brought out the unconscious children one-by-one, and Mrs Salisbury tried in vain to resuscitate each of them before they were taken to hospital.
Tragically they were pronounced dead just hours later.
Humberside Police have finished their investigations at the house but it is not yet known when the cause of the fire will be made public.
The force said it appears the fire was a tragic accident.

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