All this, over a few quid

Kathy Ellis, 48, Windsor

Sniffling as another tear fell, I looked up with bleary eyes to see my friend Stephen Bell.

Taking my hand, he wiped a drop from my cheek.

‘It’ll be OK,’ he soothed.

‘I can’t believe she won’t be coming home,’ I sobbed in his arms.

It was August 2018 and I’d just been told my mum Rita, then 67, was dying.

She’d been suffering from severe diabetes complications.

Stephen had driven me to hospital to be by her side to say my goodbyes.

My rock.

We’d met through mutual friends a