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'Simon was the most kind and gentle person in the world'

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Published date17 June 2022
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
Simon McHugh, 49, died at the scene after he and the taxi driver's vehicle were ploughed into by a 15-year-old driving a stolen Ford Transit van which the police had been monitoring

He had been working at Jurys Inn, Bradford for the past three years and was heading back to his mother's home in Lindley where she was waiting for him.

I would like pass on condolences driver's family like my brother just doing Simon BROTHER

Alastair McHugh, a 52-year-old, former bus driver, Huddersfield Town fan, and semi-retired driving instructor from the Halifax area, said: "He was due to come home on the train, he would normally always use public transport, but he left later and my mother Gillian, (a widow), was waiting up for him.

He said Gillian, who is in her 70s, tried to phone him but got no answer so at 12.45am she went to bed. The collision occurred at 10.45pm on Monday and at 2.20am on Tuesday West Yorkshire Police officers arrived at her home and told her the devastating news.

She was later consoled by a relative. Alastair said: "My mother didn't want to tell me straight away what had happened so my son James who was just about to board a plane to Majorca told me at 5.50am on Tuesday.

"Simon was the most gentle, kind and wonderful person in the world. He would do anything for anybody. He would have been back in Huddersfield if he had gone on the train.

very much to my sincere to the taxi because just they were their jobs. McHugh's Alastair "He had been living in Bradford and only moved back to Huddersfield and the family home where we were brought up only recently. He loved cooking, that was his thing, and worked for at one time the well-known Huddersfield hoteliers, Johnnie Marsden and his brother Joe.

"He used to know all the cast of Last of the Summer Wine when he worked at the Palace Bar, part of Huddersfield Hotel.

"One time, Thora Hird, who was in the show for years, was having her breakfast and asked if he...

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