"My husband was killed when I was 17 weeks pregnant - I miss him every single day"

  • 19 days ago
A widow says she has to “carry on living for her baby” after her husband was killed when she was 17 weeks pregnant.

Sophie Ransom, 26, felt a “wife’s intuition” when she woke up without husband Paul, 25, next to her on the morning of May 24, 2023.

She was later informed by police he’d been in a collision on his Suzuki motorbike and died at the scene.

The mum-of-one says she lived on autopilot for the next month - but when she felt her baby kicking for the first time, she had a reason to carry on.

Now, she says she wakes up with the intention to “smile and laugh at least once a day” - despite thinking she could never be happy again.

Sophie, a project manager from Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, said: “Life as a young widow is hard - it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done, and so exhausting.

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