DAVID Cameron unexpectedly helped the family of a South Bucks teenager who died on holiday earlier this year, by writing and arranging for them to receive vital information about his death, the Bucks Free Press can reveal.

Marlow teenager James Fifield was tragically killed while travelling on a quad bike in Zante, Greece, on Saturday, July 5, after a drunk driver hit him from behind, an inquest heard this month.

However, family say they would never have reached an outcome at the inquest had the Prime Minister not intervened and helped arrange for a Greek police report to be delivered.

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James on the far left with his friends on holiday

James’ mother Claire Fifield-Moore said her family were “eternally grateful” to him for the help and support he had shown.

In his letter, he said: “I was deeply saddened to hear about the death of your son James. I know from my own experience how difficult it is to lose a child, but cannot imagine what it is like to be dealing with this in the absence of answers about what happened.”

He added: “I can also understand the importance of seeing the police file. Again, this is not normally possible without appointing a local lawyer, but the investigating officer has agreed that you can see a copy of the file.

“I believe the Consular staff are in touch about you giving permission for Matthew Delapp, Vice Consul in the British Consulate, to personally collect a copy from the authorities on your behalf.”

Mrs Fifield-Moore said she was shocked to receive a reply from the PM after she had written to him and other cabinet members a month after her son’s death.

At the time the family still had very little information about the incident and believed they may never see the police report.

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The letter the Prime Minister sent to Claire Fifield-Moore 

She said: “I couldn’t believe it when I got the letter from Downing Street, and actually reading it David Cameron got the police report for me.

“And thank god he did, because then at least at the inquest we actually had some kind of evidence.

“Otherwise it would have just been an open and shut case and we wouldn’t have got as far as we did. He has tremendously helped.

“Without this we would not have had the inquest we did. It helped swing the inquest and for the coroner to actually say indirectly drink driving is the cause of it, has made a real difference.

“He won’t now be just another statistic, he wasn’t at fault and we found this out because of this (report), it has been a huge help to us.”

Although the police report was delivered in Greek, legal experts were able to translate it, revealing the person who hit James was about two and a half times over the drink driving legal limit and there was a 24-day gap between his arrest and the writing of his statement.

Mrs Fifield-Moore says it is now time for something to change, to ensure no-one else goes through this again.

She said: “It is one of the things which seems really basic, the family have a right to know, I wasn’t after any more than the basic truth.

“If it happened in this country and it was a foreign national, their families would be involved every step of the way, it is very one-sided.

“I think it needs to be brought to the attention of other people because although everybody knows we have suffered a tragedy nobody actually knows what we have had to go through to get any basic help.”

She added we are all part of the EU, Greece is not a third world country yet we have had next to no support from their authorities.

Mr Cameron also informed the family he would look into a hoax call they received shortly after James’ death, with a company claiming they could fly his body back for a fee.

Since the death of the former Wye Valley School student, the family have been overcome with support, and the letter from Mr Cameron has only increased that.

Mrs Fifield-Moore said: “Somebody said to me there are people who reach 90 and don’t touch as many people in their lives as James did.

“We are so grateful for everything which has been done and we need to try and move on, if we can, we also need to stop thinking about the end of it because the 18 years running up to it were phenomenal.”

The family say they have also recently discovered the driver has been charged with negligent manslaughter and they believe he will stand trial, although details are still unclear.