Pret mum ‘engulfed with grief’

THE mother of a teenager who died after an allergic reaction to a Pret a Manger sandwich has revealed her heartbreaking last words to her daughter.

She spoke to 15-year-old Natasha as she lay dying in hospital and said over the phone: “Tashi, I love you so much, darling.”

Alone in a lounge at Stansted Airport, desperate to reach her child’s bedside 800 miles away in Nice, Tanya Ednan-Laperouse sobbed as her husband laid his phone on the pillow by Natasha’s ear.

Natasha suffered a catastrophic allergic reaction to the sesame seeds in a Pret a Manger baguette while aboard a British Airways flight, and had been unconscious for several hours.

Dad Nadim said: “You’ve got to say goodbye to her now. She’s going to die any minute. Say something. She might hear it.”

Tanya added: “I fell to the ground. I couldn’t talk, I was engulfed with grief.”

At an inquest last week, coroner Sean Cummings criticised Pret for failing to properly alert customers to potentially fatal allergens.

The family is considering a civil claim.

Tanya said their legal team had been “quite remarkable, with a real love of humanity”.