More details revealed of lives cut short as British death toll rises to 32
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Your support makes all the difference.More poignant details of the lives cut short by the Bali bombing emerged last night as the number of Britons feared to be dead rose to 32. The Foreign Office said 11 British people had been positively identified as among the dead. A further eight are thought to be dead and another 13 are missing.
Yesterday the parents of Douglas Warner – who has been confirmed dead – were among those to speak of their loss. The 35-year-old from Surrey had been living in Indonesia and was married to a local woman. His work as an interpreter for the UN and for the BBC had taken him to East Timor and Borneo, and the couple were hoping to settle in Bali.
"We are all in deep shock and trying to come to terms with our loss," his father, John, from Dorset, said.
The 11 confirmed to have died in the car bomb which tore through the Sari Club in Kuta are Neil Bowler, 27, David Kent, 27, John "Chris" Redman, 31, Clive Walton, 33, Peter Record, 32, Mr Warner, Ian Findley, 55, Marc Gajardo, 30, Paul Hussey, 46, John Ellwood, 39, and another. The families of many more were enduring an agonising wait and several appeared to have all but given up hope.
Daniel Braden, 28, who was on an end-of-season break with other members of his Taiwan-based rugby club the Taipei Baboons, is missing feared dead. His mother, Mandy Braden, from Brighton, said that although they had not received official confirmation from the Foreign Office, they had accepted he was probably dead. "It is a tremendous waste of a talented young life," she said. Members of the rugby club placed rose petals in his memory at the bomb site yesterday.
Edward Waller, aged 26, is among five members of the Hong Kong Vandals rugby team missing feared dead, with two of their number already among those confirmed to have perished. His family said: "Ed loved life. He loved to travel, and the pages of his passport read like a novel. He was the life and soul of every party. Ed was a generous, warm, spontaneous and energetic person."
More names were added to the list of missing. The families of Emma Fox, 32, and Lucy Empson, 30, from north London, said they were awaiting news. And relatives of the Sheffield cousins Natalie Perkins, 20, and Laura France, 18, said they were still trying to find out whether they were alive. They phoned their families almost daily. But on Sunday, the calls stopped.
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