Face etched with pain, tissue damp with tears, the grandmother’s heartbreak was clear to see. Just hours earlier, she’d heard the devastating news that her beloved granddaughter, Chloe, five, had drowned on her first holiday abroad.
April Johnson was caught by the news cameras in disbelief. How could the bright, healthy, lively girl be snatched away forever in a hotel pool in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt?
Yet Chloe was another grim statistic in the roll call of holiday deaths – with a shocking four being reported in less than a week in May alone. There was Brian Kent, 45, who drowned off the coast of Sperlonga, Italy. Then Paul Towning, 51, who lost his life diving in Sardinia, and a 65-year-old man who died paragliding in France.
This catalogue of horror…