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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Helena Vesty & Harriet Bullough

"My wife thought I wasn't coming back, my children were shouting 'daddy's dead'"

A father-of-three who collapsed during a Jubilee street party in cardiac arrest survived against the odds thanks to a neighbour performing life-saving CPR after hearing his children shouted: “Daddy’s dead.”

Andrew Mace, 44, who works in technology for an investment bank and lives in Otford, Kent, with his wife Sophie, 36, and children Annabelle, 10, Luke, seven, and Alice, two, was diagnosed with Fabry disease, an enzyme deficiency, aged 26.

He had a pacemaker fitted in 2009 and a kidney transplant in 2018. But in June 2022, during a Jubilee neighbourhood party, Andrew’s family were horrified when he collapsed, suffering a devastating cardiac arrest.

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