SNAPSHOT OF HEARTACHE...
EVERY one of those 100,162 deaths hides a personal tragedy.
Here we highlight a few, to remember all of them.
CLAUDIA MARSH: Died at Liverpool’s Royal University Hospital on her 25th birthday.
Her family called the charity helper “our beautiful daughter and incredible sister”.
Friends raised more than £10,000 for the city’s Whitechapel Centre and TEDS charity that Claudia supported.
NAGGAYI ANGELLA, 42: In a coma for two weeks. The Edinburgh mental health nursing student leaves two children she raised alone. Her daughter Annmarie, 12, said: “I love everything about her and miss everything about her.” Son John, eight, said: “Mummy was a nice, caring person.”
KAREN HOBBS, 40: Died in an induced coma in the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.
In a final Facebook post the mother of five and ex-air stewardess asked friends to pray “that I wake from this and come home to my kids”.
She had a cardiac arrest weeks after a positive test.
TONY BROWN, 73: Shown on TV asking to see his wife Linda in London’s Barnet Hospital. Lorry driver Tony was filmed by Sky News, saying he felt “terrible. Twice I went to ring my wife, to tell her I weren’t coming [back].” His widow allowed the interview to be broadcast after he died last Friday.
MARK BOWEN, 52: Died three days after discharge from a Chester hospital.
The home of this “gentle giant” in Connah’s Quay, Deeside was wrecked by fire in November – then Mark fell ill just after Christmas.
His daughter Samantha said: “If I become half the parent he was, I’ll be so, so proud.”