Dad pays tribute to ‘wonderful family’ killed in Stroud Boxing Day fire

A man whose wife and two children died in a Boxing Day fire has paid tribute to his “wonderful family”.

Tom Shearman escaped the fire after it engulfed their home on Brimscombe Hill in Stroud, Gloucestershire, killing seven-year-old Eve, four-year-old Ohner, and their mother, Fionnghuala Shearman.

“I cannot begin to describe the anguish and trauma of the events of Boxing Day 2025,” he said in a tribute released by Gloucestershire Constabulary.

“My family had its very core, its very essence, ripped from it in the most violent way.”