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The Guardian - Life & Style • Jan. 28, 2026, 11:45 a.m.
My husband was murdered on holiday – and my whole world collapsed
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Each year, about 80 British people are victims of a homicide overseas, and grieving loved ones have to navigate the aftermath. Eve Henderson describes losing her husband, and her fight to help others On a Sunday in October 1997, Eve Henderson looked down at her husband, Roderick, as he lay in a hospital bed, unable to make sense of what she saw.
She was, she says, “a block of stone”. They were in the neurological ward of a huge hospital on the outskirts of Paris.
Travelling on the Métro, the hospital name scribbled on a scrap of paper, it had taken Henderson an hour to find. Roderick looked comfortable when she arrived; he was a good colour, but there was a round red mark in the centre of his forehead and a small tube inside his mouth, attached to something she later learned was breathing for him.
She was, she says, “a block of stone”. They were in the neurological ward of a huge hospital on the outskirts of Paris.
Travelling on the Métro, the hospital name scribbled on a scrap of paper, it had taken Henderson an hour to find. Roderick looked comfortable when she arrived; he was a good colour, but there was a round red mark in the centre of his forehead and a small tube inside his mouth, attached to something she later learned was breathing for him.
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