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Beth Fitton, Salma’s care worker |
The unfulfilled dreams of Salma’s tragic care worker
THE father of the young care worker killed alongside runaway Salma ElSharkawy in a car accident in Derbyshire, has spoken of his final conversation with his daughter.
John Fitton, the father of care worker Beth Fitton, a 23-year-old student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, told the New Journal this week of his daughter’s aspirations to make a future for herself in Thailand.
Beth’s family have set up a tribute website, where friends and family can light virtual candles in her memory and share stories of their time with her.
Mr Fitton said: “At our last meeting we discussed Beth’s future aspirations and talked in detail about options. I believe Beth would have developed a successful career in Thailand – sadly that will now remain an unfulfilled dream never to be realised.”
Beth and Salma, 12, a former Haverstock student from Gospel Oak, died when their car smashed into a tree in Buxton, Derbyshire in July. Beth was working for Adventure Care Ltd, a private care home, where Salma had been sent after being taken into care by Camden’s Social Services two years earlier.
Their deaths are at the centre of police investigations into the cause of the accident and the condition of the car they were in.
Mr Fitton said his daughter had excelled in show jumping and long distance running, later alternating work between care jobs in the UK and leisure-related work in Thailand, where she lived for several years.
He said: “Beth was an extremely popular, attractive and bright young woman and is badly missed by her many friends in Derbyshire, London and Thailand. Her close family (father, mother, brother, sister) have found the suddenness of the loss, the nature of her death and disturbing post-mortem details, a particularly traumatic experience. So much potential unrealised .... the loss will remain with us always.”
Beth’s website includes a message from Salma ElSharkawy’s father, who said: “Salma loved Beth… to death, they died together, I am so sorry Beth. Salma loved you, and died with you.” |
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