Clare Phillips

Clare Phillips (born circa 1958) was the mother of Oscar Phillips.

Clare gave birth to Oscar circa 1987.

While Oscar was in St Helen's Hospital in a coma for a period of three months, Clare visited him every morning, and sometimes in the evenings too. She talked to him, read to him and played him his favourite music, including Queen, Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen, in the hope that he would twitch a finger or flicker an eyelid. He never did.

Clare was present at Oscar's funeral, where she was sobbing and was being comforted by a grey-bearded man in a black coat. The inscription on Oscar's headstone read: "My Beloved Son. Taken Too Soon".

Clare was 51 years old but looked older. (PROSE: Bay of the Dead)