'Super-fit' father collapsed and died whilst out running

Dec 27 2008

A MIDLAND woman training for the London Marathon told today how her ‘super-fit’ father collapsed and died as he ran at her side.

Emma Wilson spoke fully for the first time of the moment she desperately tried to save her father’s life.

And she vowed to run the marathon next June in his memory.

Emma, 32, was training with her sports fanatic father Tom Jones, when he fell to the ground just 150 yards from the family home in Atherstone, Warwickshire earlier this year.

Despite frantic efforts to resuscitate him, the 64 year-old was dead before he hit the floor .

The family later learned that he was suffering from an