A loving father tragically died on Christmas Day after suffering from a heart attack. Gareth Blenkins was just 40 years old. He leaves behind a 15-year-old son.
Gareth, also known affectionately as Gaz, was enjoying the festive day with his loved ones, when he went outside for a cigarette. When he went back inside he was “laughing and joking" but then he just clutched his chest, fell to the floor and began having a fit.
He was rushed to hospital but it was "too late", his heartbroken cousin Damien Sharpe says. “His brain went for too long without oxygen. Unfortunately, he didn’t come round from it.”
