 |
< BACK
Dizzy spells of man in faulty boiler riddle
A MAN who died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning told friends he had collapsed at his South Yorkshire home a week before his death.
Mark Ellis, aged 41, also complained of dizzy spells after a new boiler was fitted in the bathroom of his home on Hawthorne Crescent, Dodworth, Barnsley.
The former Sheffield Council worker was found dead in the bathroom on Monday, February 18, and his cat was found dead in the lounge.
Close friend Ken Isherwood, 49, said Mark had taken the week before his death off work with a suspected ear infection but told colleagues on the Friday he would definitely be back the following Monday.
That weekend he had delightedly texted Ken from Anfield when Barnsley beat Liverpool in the FA cup. The same evening he had sent messages from a Reverend and the Makers gig in Barnsley town centre.
But Ken knew there was something wrong when he texted Mark on the Monday after the Reds drew Chelsea in the quarter finals and there was no reply.
Ken, of Abbeydale, Sheffield, said: "When people go suddenly it's so shocking. It's only now starting to sink in.
"He used to stay with me when he came to Sheffield and he had mentioned feeling dizzy a week before he died. He said he had collapsed in the bathroom. But he also had this ear infection and that can affect balance and we just didn't think it was that serious.
"Now everything points to the new boiler.
"Mark loved the Reds and after the Liverpool match he was at the gig in Barnsley – his last few days must have been some of his happiest."
A tribute to Mark is set to go into the Barnsley match programme for the game against Sheffield Wednesday at Oakwell this Saturday.
Mark was well known in Barnsley and Sheffield, where he worked for more than 10 years in the housing department at Sheffield Council, before starting work for the Probation Service in Bar
nsley in 2001.
Divorced with no children, he is understood to have just started a new relationship.
As well as being a Reds season ticket holder in the East Stand he was a big music fan, with his love of obscure punk and ska tracks earning him the nickname 'Mark B-side' among friends.
He had been politically active since the mid-1980s and – influenced by bands like the Clash and Billy Bragg – he had DJed at trade union fundraising events.
Now his friends plan to organise events to raise money for a guitar to donate to the Jail Guitar Doors campaign, a charity in Clash singer Joe Strummer's honour run by Billy Bragg to provide instruments to prisoners.
Sent: 29/02/2008
Email us direct at: repairs@londonheatingservices.co.uk
|
|
|
|
|
||