The devastated family of a tragic schoolboy who was mowed down by a drunk driver while on holiday with his friends in Greece will be forced to relive the horror of his death once again after his killer appealed his sentence.

The man who ploughed into James Fifield, 18, while he was enjoying a holiday with seven pals in Zante on July 5, 2014, was finally found guilty of negligent manslaughter a year ago. 

Former Wye Valley School pupil James, who was on the island celebrating the end of his A-Levels, was travelling back to his hotel on a hired quad bike when a man who lived on the island crashed into him from behind.

After years of battling to find out details of the crash – which saw Prime Minister David Cameron intervene and demand the family receive vital information about his death in October 2014 - James’ mum was finally able to see the man who killed her son found guilty of negligent manslaughter in May last year.

Although he escaped a jail term – with the judge handing him a 21-month suspended sentence and taking his driving license away for two months – he has appealed his punishment, forcing his heartbroken mum, Claire Fifield-Moore, to return to Greece next month to go to the High Court.

Mrs Fifield-Moore, who works at a school in High Wycombe, will fly out to hear the appeal on June 19 after receiving a call from the Foreign Office around three weeks ago.

Her first reaction to the news was anger – but she now hopes to be able to face her son’s killer and tell him how he destroyed her family.

She said: “I can’t understand why he would do this – it is beyond me. When I first heard, I was really angry and upset. But I think it could be my chance to face him in the box and tell him exactly what he has done to us. I'm hoping I can turn it around into a positive thing.

“We just have to try and be as positive as possible. We need to make him realise what he has caused. To him, James was just a British teenager, he was a faceless person. But to us, he was our life.

“He has never heard from us. We never got a chance to give an impact statement in court, so this could be cathartic in a way.”

Mrs Fifield-Moore, who lived in Marlow at the time of her son’s death but now lives in Hurley, said she could not understand why the driver is appealing his sentence.

At the time of his sentencing, the heartbroken parent said “the punishment does not seem to fit the crime, but guilty is guilty.”

Speaking to the Bucks Free Press this week, she added: “His sentence is almost over now so I don’t understand why he is doing this.

“I'm shocked. The sentence was never what he should have received, but we just wanted him to put his hands up and say ‘I’m guilty’.

“He never did that, but we did get a guilty verdict. It was a little bit of closure for us after years of torment and now this.”