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Dave Burke

'I couldn't hug my brother at mum's funeral and it was the last time I ever saw him'

A devastated woman who saw her brother for the last time at their mum's funeral says she wishes she could have given him a hug - but didn't because she was following the rules.

Cassie Garbutt could not embrace grief-stricken sibling Glen Southern as they bade farewell to mother Brenda, 72, who died from Covid without her family at her side.

Just weeks later, in June 2020, dad-of-six Glen, 46, from Blackpool, tragically took his own life.

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