A cancer patient has told of his "hell" after a convicted criminal allegedly became "obsessed" with him and started a vicious campaign of abuse on social media. Cancer has spread to various parts of Jeff Bevan's body and doctors have given a terminal diagnosis – but the 48-year-old from Port Talbot has had to endure social media abuse allegedly claiming he invented the illness.
Mr Bevan was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in 2019. After five months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy at Swansea's Singleton Hospital, he was given the all-clear, but early the following year a scan showed cancer in his oesophagus and thyroid gland. The coronavirus pandemic delayed an operation until November 2020, by which time "the tumours had grown so much my windpipe was going to close", he said.
Although the surgery allowed Mr Bevan to breathe more easily, the cancer had spread to his brain and other parts of his body. Around October 2021 he was told the cancer was terminal and given around two years to live. The following year his oesophagus and gallbladder were removed as well as parts of his liver, stomach and pancreas.
