A BARNSLEY woman devastated by the death of her husband after just seven months of marriage will be walking the Yorkshire three peaks in his memory.

Craig Hellewell died in May aged 36, leaving new wife Lisa, 37, and a daughter from a previous marriage, Niamh, just eight.

He was generally fit and healthy, but had been short of breath for a few days due to a chest infection. After a weekend break to Whitby, he went to casualty concerned about his breathing, but was sent home after being told it was 'just an infection'.

Neither Craig nor Lisa had any idea a blood clot had developed in his leg and was about to kill him.

Lisa said: "He'd gone to sleep but woke up at about 1am and he just couldn't catch his breath. "We'd called the paramedics. They were trying to calm him down and get him to breathe. He said he needed the toilet so I went with him to the bathroom, and he just collapsed in my arms onto the bathroom floor.

"I saw his lips turning blue. I knew."

Part of the blot clot had broken off, and gone up through blood vessels and his heart into a lung artery: a pulmonary embolism.

The couple lived together near the town centre, but Lisa has been staying with her parents, unable to return home since the tragedy.

She said: "He was a fantastic husband and a loving dad who shall be missed very much. "Embolism is a bigger killer than people think, so I want to try and raise awareness about blood clots and deep vein thrombosis which hopefully can prevent more deaths.

"People think deep vein thrombosis is just from flying, but with Craig it was hereditary."

Lisa and friends Sarah Kaye, Stuart and Rebekah Mason, Andy Hall, Kieran and Keeley Holmes will all complete the three peaks challenge to raise money for Lifeblood - the Thrombosis Charity on September 19.

The group have a website where money can be donated at www.justgiving.com/In-Memory-Of-Craig-Hellewell