The son of a tragic hospital cleaner today tells how she cashed in her NHS pension to pay a rocketing electricity bill just two months before she died of Covid last week.
Judith Thorpe, 49, did so in desperation to protect her two teenage daughters from worrying about family finances during the cost-of-living crisis – and to make sure they had new school shoes and jumpers.
But now her heartbreaking decision has left her girls without a mother – and penniless too.
