A bar owner sent a text to his wife asking her to "look after my kids" before his heart stopped for 17 minutes.
Andrew Mikhail was hospitalised for six months after contracting coronavirus. During this time, Andrew, who is chairman of Mikhail Hotel & Leisure Group, which owns the Lord Street and Bold hotels in Southport, the Punch Tarmey's and Doctor Duncan's bars and other venues, spent weeks fighting for his life in intensive care of Wigan Hospital.
After 16 days in hospital it became clear it was critical for Andrew to be placed on a ventilator. He said at that stage he fully believed he would die, and sent text messages to his wife Vicky and business partner Rob Ashcroft saying "look after my kids".
