Five years ago, my eight-year-old grandson ran down the stairs yelling for me to come up to the bathroom. His mother, my daughter Francesca, 31, had fallen in the bath and he couldn’t get her out of the water. She wasn’t able to speak and was comatose – we didn’t know what was happening. I tried three times to get her out of the bath, and just couldn’t manage it. I told my grandson to run next door to ask the neighbour for help. The neighbour started doing CPR, and shortly after, the ambulance turned up. They tried to keep my daughter alive, but after an hour, they said they couldn’t bring her back. She died, leaving behind her two young children, then only eight and three, who witnessed the…
