02 Jan 2018 --- Compass Group Chief Executive Richard Cousins has been named as among the dead when a seaplane crashed in a Sydney river on New Year’s Eve. The well-respected 58-year-old boss of the UK catering giant died alongside members of his close family on December 31. Others killed were his two sons, William Cousins, 25, and Edward Cousins, 23, his fiancée Emma Bowden, 48, and her daughter Heather Bowden, aged 11. The pilot, Gareth Morgan, 44, was also killed.