A mum-of-two died of a "quiet killer" after her dad found her clinging to a bench outside Costa.
Yvonne Powell, 49, remembers her older sister, Verna Jackson, as a "very private, very quiet, just very reliable, dependable, honest" person. The 50-year-old fundraiser from Formby was struggling for weeks to reach her GP over the phone to make appointment for agonising stomach pains paracetamol couldn't cure, but she didn't ask her family for help.
The pain kept getting "worse and worse" until Verna's dad found her clinging to a bench outside Costa in April last year. Yvonne, a mum-of-one who works in insurance, said: "My dad bumped into her in the village one day and she was in agony. He said, 'Right that's it', and just marched her into the doctors and said, 'We're making an appointment and we're not leaving until we've got one'."
