Grieving parents told to pay dead student daughter's rent
Mar 29 2008
by Vicky Anderson, Liverpool Daily Post
A LIVERPOOL property firm was branded “ruthless” last night, after revealing plans to take the bereaved parents of a student to court over unpaid rent since their daughter’s death.
Shauna McCann, a second-year student at Liverpool Hope University, was studying to become a teacher when she died suddenly in January.
Since then, her parents, Kevin and Margaret, of Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, have received demands from student accommodation specialists Brownlow Property Management (BPM), based in Wavertree, to pay for her rented flat in the Mossley Hill area of the city for the rest of the university year.
In a statement, the firm said it “did not feel we are being callous or unsympathetic” towards the family.
Kevin and Margaret McCann last night spoke of the distress of their situation in a joint statement: “The loss of our daughter, Shauna, was a dreadful blow to our family,” they said.
“Her sudden death whilst a student at Hope University Liverpool has devastated us and her friends. Shauna had hoped to qualify as a special needs teacher.
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