A mum is desperately trying to get her husband declared legally dead, after he disappeared while diving last year.
Rosie Moss, 37, has been trying to escape the ‘claustrophobic bubble’ of grief she has experienced since her husband Ben Moss was lost at sea.
He went scuba diving along the Kent coast in March and never resurfaced, leaving Rosie to raise their three young children alone.
Rosie, from Faversham in Kent, said: “It was the worst night of my life – Ben was the kind of man who appeared to be invincible and it was a complete shock.
“I was at home bathing my children when there was a knock at the door.
“I thought Ben had forgotten his keys and I was rolling my eyes and I carried the baby downstairs.
“The dog was barking and I opened the door to two police officers – all they could tell me was that he dove at 11 o’clock and they hadn’t found anything else since.”
The couple had been married for ten years and had three children together – Monty, then seven, Hector, then five, and Tabitha, who was just six-months-old when Ben went missing.
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Rosie said: “It’s just devastating. Ben was an utterly devoted father and husband – he was a man’s man but very loving and he doted on our three children.
“He did school runs, he did night feeds, he changed nappies and he did cuddles and bedtime stories with the kids.
“There is no doubt in my mind he died that day when he went diving in freezing cold waters – if he hadn’t, he would have come home to his family.”
Ben, who was self employed, was classified as a missing person after he disappeared on March 12, which left Rosie trying to negotiate an extremely complicated financial future.
Faced with the monumental loss she and her children suffered, she has been struggling to keep Ben’s specialist flooring company afloat and said if she cannot obtain a ‘presumption of death’ certificate for her husband, she will lose their family home which they jointly own.
Rosie said: “Losing the love of your life and raising your three children alone is so, so hard and on top of that, I have to wade through letters and paperwork still in his name, which is a constant reminder.
“There are so many things that are affected – even Ben’s Land Rover which he took out on finance for £600 per month and I never drove.
“It is a logistical nightmare and from a survival perspective –I have to access the life insurance otherwise we will lose our home.”
A missing person is not automatically assumed dead and Rosie had to apply to the High Court for the ‘declaration of presumed death’ certificate.
This can be granted to people in England and Wales who have been missing for at least seven years or who have been missing for less than seven years but are believed to be dead.
Two other divers linked to the same boat company Ben dived with on the day he went missing are also scheduled for pre-inquest hearings in March.
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Rosie said her fight for Ben’s certificate would have been impossible without receiving legal support from her friend, a solicitor, as she would have had to fork out £23,000 in legal fees to date.
The mum-of-three said she was rescued at her lowest point by Holding On Letting Go and is running the Manchester Marathon in April to raise money for the charity in Ben’s memory.
The Kent charity provides bereavement support and advice for children and young people aged six to 16 and their families.
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