It’s “like someone has ripped out my insides”, is how Ross teaching assistant Lisa Bundy described the pain after her long-time love and fiancé of just two weeks died at the hands of masked gunmen.
Miss Bundy’s fiancée Craig Hodson-Walker, 29, was shot while defending his parents and their Post Office in Fairfield, Worcestershire last Friday.
Miss Bundy issued a statement describing Mr Hodson-Walker as her “soulmate and best friend”.
The couple met 10 years ago when they both worked at the Inn on the Wye at Kerne Bridge, Bishop’s Wood, Herefordshire. They got engaged at Christmas and Miss Bundy was planning to move to Worcestershire to be with her fiancé this year.
She said: “We enjoyed socialising with friends, having time for ourselves and making plans for the future. Now I have had my future destroyed. Craig deserves for them to get caught because he didn’t deserve to die like that. I can’t even start to describe the pain – it feels like someone has ripped out my insides. It seems like a bad dream.”
Craig was shot in the chest on Friday morning as he helped his father fend off four balaclava-wearing armed raiders at Fairfield Post Office and Stores. The culprits fled at about 8.20am in a car that had been stolen from Solihull on New Year’s Eve.
He lived and worked at the post office with parents Ken and Judy. His father was shot in the leg and remains in hospital following surgery.
As the Journal went to press eight people had been arrested in connection with the death, four on the suspicion of murder and attempted murder and four on the suspicion of assisting an offender. Anyone with information should contact police on 0300 333 3000 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
