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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Ben McVay & Ashlie Blakey

Parents watched in horror as son, 38, died in shopping centre after collapsing in Boots

A man who was 'in the prime of his life' died just 50 minutes after calling his dad to say he 'felt funny', an inquest heard.

Mark Bennett collapsed inside a Boots store in the Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield in April last year. He had developed venous thromboembolism as a result of immobility following an injury to his foot, YorkshireLive reports.

His parents Steven and Elaine Bennett had to wait for an agonising 50 minutes for paramedics to arrive on the scene after their son collapsed, the inquest was told. Despite first-aiders at Boots battling to keep him alive with CPR, Mark tragically died.

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