"I will always have guilt that I did not do anything."
Those are the words of a son who watched his mum scream out in pain as aggressive cancer took its toll on her body. Mary Harle Hansen, from Sunderland Bridge, died less than 50 days after she was diagnosed with the disease which had spread to her pancreas, stomach, bowel, liver, throat and bones by the time it was detected in May 2020.
The once active woman who loved sport and continued to ski until she was in her late 70s quickly became "shrunken like a little old lady" and was confined to her bed. And when the pain became too much she begged for her life to end.
