Stop the negative rumours: Bowman

Ann-Marie Bowman, mother of Andre Bowman who was killed in a motor vehicular accident last Sunday, says that she wants the negative rumours to stop.{{more}}

Speaking to SEARCHLIGHT on Wednesday, Bowman said that she did not want to go into much detail, except to say that people were making comments about her and about what had taken place on the night her 30-year old son was killed and her 23-year-old son Felix was injured.

“I know people have a lot of negative things to say, and regardless to what people have to say, all family has misunderstandings and it is my child.”

“I am the one feeling the pain right now, I have to go through with all the pain despite what,” Bowman contended.

Andre Bowman and his brother Felix, were travelling to Kingstown in a white four-door SUV PK302 when the vehicle ran off the road. Andre died on the spot.

Ann-Marie said that the time following the accident has been very difficult for her.

“To be honest, if I had a choice to sacrifice myself for him, I would do it. It was my son,” Bowman told SEARCHLIGHT.

She further maintained that she loves her children and that she would do anything for them.

Bowman said that she left her son Andre and his three siblings and migrated to Canada in 2001.

This, after the boys lost their father at an early age.

She thanked Roman Catholic priest Fr Jim Candon for being there for her children in her absence, adding that she kept in touch with her children up to her return to St Vincent in August 2011.

Bowman also said that she supported her children and that she insisted that they get a solid education.

She remembered the time spent with her now deceased son, saying that the last time she saw her son alive was a few weeks before when she went to visit him at his home in Arnos Vale.

But she said that the family is now looking to move on, although it is going to be a difficult task.

“Sometimes we ask ourselves why this had to happen, but there is a God and we cannot question Him,” she told SEARCHLIGHT.

“It is something that we will have to live with for a very long time,” Bowman said.

Particularly since the brothers were very close, something she said that she insisted on, that they cling together.

She said that she was grateful that she did not lose two of her children seeing that Felix, 23, the other occupant in the vehicle, had survived the crash.

Bowman said Felix was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday and was doing well, but that they would be monitoring the situation.

The funeral for Andre Bowman will take place next Monday at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Assumption. (DD)