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'Life never same' after husband's death - inquest

The family of a man who suffered a fatal cardiac arrest at a football match has told an inquest into his death that "life will never be the same" without him.

Mark Townsend, 57, from Birmingham, collapsed at Hillsborough Stadium during West Bromwich Albion's away tie with Sheffield Wednesday on 28 September last year.

The inquest at Sheffield Medico-Legal Centre has been examining whether there were issues in Mr Townsend's care, which was earlier described by some witnesses as "chaos" and "a shambles".

In a statement, Mr Townsend's wife, Marion, said: "My world without Mark is now an existence, not a life.