Claire Reynolds shares her heartbreaking experience of losing her daughter in a tragic accident caused by a drunk driver, and how she copes with the pain and grief on a daily basis.
When Claire Reynolds gets home from work, the first thing she does is pour herself a drink. Except for her, it isn’t a relaxing G&T to signal the start of a pleasant evening ahead, but a stiff shot to numb the pain that’s risen to a gut-wrenching peak in the minutes before.
The six-year-old schoolgirl was on her way home from the sweet shop with dad Kris, excited about the girlie evening she was going to have with her mum, when she was killed by a car that mounted the pavement and hit them. This meant that questions mum-of-three Claire, 38, desperately wanted answers to remained a mystery, and the full police investigation was delayed until Owen regained consciousness.
She previously had talks with then-Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab about the lenient jail term given to Sharlotte’s killer. Owen was sentenced to six years and two months, and will serve only around three years in prison. Calls to refer his case to the Court of Appeal were refused by Solicitor General Michael Tomlinson – but Claire is hoping she can count on new Secretary of State for Justice Alex Chalk to back her campaign for Sharlotte’s Law.
“When things like this happen to a person, the pain and the suffering you go through – you would do anything to not let somebody else go through that.“I want the police to be able to do their job and get answers as quickly as possible, and save anyone from having to go through that darkness. When you’re going through the justice process, everything else gets put on hold – and as soon as you get justice, you are overwhelmed by the grief.
“People ask about that mother’s instinct and why I’d leave my other children Paul, 16, and Eva, 13 , but I told myself they’d be OK. They’d still have family. But Sharlotte was on her own. She has nobody. The family doesn’t celebrate birthdays or Christmas – “It’s guilt more than anything, because I always made them magical and special, and it doesn’t seem right when Sharlotte’s not here to enjoy them with us” – but Claire hopes they will one day. “I hope the memories of Sharlotte will become good ones,” she says.
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