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Lucy Marshall & Steven Smith

Family struggling to feed kids as dad, 31, left in coma after heart attack

A family have had their lives turned upside down after a dad-of-three aged just 31 had a heart. Matthew Farrar is now in a coma in hospital.

Matthew was at home with his children and fiancée when he collapsed on April 20. Christie, his partner, performed CPR, which saved his life, a friend said, before an ambulance arrived.

Lifelong friend Laura told LeedLive that his girls "watched the devastation unfold". Matthew, of Seacroft, Leeds, has three girls, aged 10, five and four. He reportedly 'flatlined' nine times before he was operated on and put into an induced coma.

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