direct to your inboxA daughter has paid tribute to her 'gentle giant' dad who died with Covid-19 just weeks after their home was gutted by a fire.Mark Bowen, his daughter Samantha and her two young children were forced to leave their home in Connah's Quay in Flintshire in November after a fire started downstairs.Tragically, Mark was never to return home.He became ill with coronavirus just after Christmas and, having been admitted to hospital, died three days after he was discharged on January 19.
He was 52."If I become half the parent he was then I'll be so, so proud," said daughter Samantha."He was a gentle giant and full of mischief.