A determined Trafford dad-of-two will take on a mammoth 1,600 mile cycle to southern Spain in honour of his well-known mum who ran pubs across Manchester before she tragically died of organ failure. Jonathan Mawby, 44, from Timperley, will embark on the 20-day trek to remember mum Lee who was first diagnosed with incurable blood cancer in 2018.
His mum, who was 73 when she lost her life, had not eaten for 17 days and passed away from organ failure as a result of malnutrition. However, two years before her death, she was handed the devastating news that she had myeloma, a blood cancer which currently has no known cure, and fell ill in hospital.
She had later become ill as a side-effect of her treatment, after the cancer became ‘active’ in May 2020, in the middle of lockdown. And, although she seemed to respond to treatment at first, in August 2020, she became inexplicably ill and was rushed to hospital.
