Nichola Parris blinked away tears as she read the Mother’s Day card her son, Daniel, had chosen for Holly, the mother of his own child. Because by the time the card had arrived, Dan had died, aged just 23.
To his friends and family, Dan, an electrician from Hastings, Kent, was the picture of health when he suddenly collapsed and died at work in February last year, the day before his daughter Olivia turned five months old.
His family struggled to believe it when they were told he had suffered a young sudden cardiac death, which claims around two people under the age of 35 every day in the UK.
