New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Killing of the Quiet Hero Parents Vow To Keep On Fighting

When Dame Sue and Phil Bagshaw farewelled their son Andrew as he left Christchurch last year to become an aid worker in war-torn Ukraine, they both had the same horrible feeling that he would not be coming home.

“Of course, we hoped he’d be okay, but we both knew we would never see him again,” says Sue, her voice trailing off with emotion. “He was going to a war zone, the risks of dying were very high. We both just had a feeling.”

Sadly, that gut instinct turned

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