Family of father shot dead by yobs lose £2,000 in Farepak collapse
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The family of a young man shot dead outside their home have lost more than £2,000 in the Farepak collapse.
Peter Woodhams, 22, died in front of his fiancee Jane Bowden and their three-year-old son Sam in August.
Despite her grief, Miss Bowden was determined to make Christmas as good as possible for her son.
But now they have become one of the 150,000 families who lost their savings when the Christmas hamper company collapsed without warning last month.
Miss Bowden, 24, said: 'I was saving £40 a month and my sister, mum and cousin were all saving. My family have lost £2,000.
'Now I don't know what's going to happen.' Despite still trying to come to terms with the loss of her fiance and struggling to bring up their son, she is bravely helping the campaign to highlight the misery of the Farepak victims.
Speaking in a Radio Five Live interview, she said: 'It's been very difficult for me but I wanted to say how disgusting it is what has happened with all those poor people who have been badly let down by Farepak.'
Miss Bowden's intervention comes as more questions emerge about Swindon-based Farepak's collapse and the whereabouts of million of pounds in savers' money.
Chief executive Sir Clive Thompson, who lives in a £2million detached house in Kent, has been dubbed 'Scrooge' after it was revealed that he and other executives have still earned a fortune.
Sir Clive, who is currently on an £8,000 two-week holiday in Argentina with his wife, has tried to blame bankers for not helping rescue Farepak.
But he has been branded the 'unacceptable face of capitalism' and there are moves to strip him of his knighthood.
Miss Bowden, from Canning Town, East London, said she still cries herself to sleep over the death of Mr Woodhams.
He had had a series of confrontations with local yobs, one of which left him badly scarred on the face from a knife attack.
His fiancee said: 'Even today I don't believe it is true. Sam keeps saying things about Peter, asking, "Where's daddy?"
'We say "Daddy is in your heart", but the other day he said, "I want daddy to come out of my heart and come home". What can you say to a three-year-old?
'The last thing Sam remembers is seeing Peter on the floor with all the medics there and I am worried what effect that will have on him in the future.
'I still can't believe Peter is gone. During the day I am with my friends at work and it keeps me occupied but at night it is hard and so are things like birthdays. It has been my birthday since he died.'
Miss Bowden recently suffered another heavy blow when her father was re-diagnosed with cancer - having been given the all-clear two years ago.
Asked her plans for the future, she replied: 'I don't know. It's been a horrendous time. I can't see anything else going wrong in this family.
'What we have been through in the last two years is just awful, but we are such a strong family and we are sticking together.
'If I was on my own I think I would have probably cracked up and topped myself.'
Bradley Tucker, 18, and a 17-year-old youth have been charged with murdering Mr Woodhams. The case is due in court next March.