An RSPCA animal carer has died suddenly after feeling ‘off colour for a couple of days’.
Jayne Lowry, 26, was rushed to hospital on Saturday after going into cardiac arrest. Her family described how paramedics ‘fought very hard to save her’, but she died the following day.
Her mum Jackie Lowry, 56, has said the family will now have to ‘wait and see’ what caused her daughter’s death. She changed her picture on Facebook to a photo of Jayne, with the words ‘protect your community against Covid-19’.
Weeks earlier, Jayne had described on social media how she had ‘braved’ the coronavirus pandemic to attend Crufts. She did not have a cough, a known of symptom of the virus, before her death.
Paying tribute to her ‘amazing and beautiful daughter’, Mrs Lowry said she would be ‘forever grateful’ to the paramedics who tried to save her.
She continued: ‘Why this devastating thing happened we will only have to wait and see. She will be forever in our hearts and sorely missed.’
Jayne, from Preston, Lancashire, did work experience at Blackpool Zoo before she became an RSPCA animal care assistant in July 2016.
Her boyfriend of eight years, Euan Murray, 28, wrote online: ‘We have all tragically lost the most loving woman on the face of the planet – funny and beautiful to boot.
‘Jayney, I am so grateful for the time we shared together, they have been the best years of my life. I wish more than anything that we could have had the future we planned together.
‘I’d give anything to hold you one last time, our socially distant walk round the park where we met all those years ago just wasn’t enough. I would have kept walking forever if I had known it was the last time that I’d see you.’
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Euan’s father Robert Murray shared a Facebook post about Jayne’s death, entitled ‘for those who think social distancing is a joke’.
He told how his son had been unable to touch his girlfriend due to the coronavirus restrictions, including not giving a ‘kiss or a hug on her birthday’ or being able to walk hand-in-hand.
Mr Murray said: ‘Covid-19 does not just affect the old! It has no respect of age or gender. Our lives were all the brighter for you Jayne Lowry, and now all the darker without you.’
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