‘I thought daughter, 7, was messing around but then I checked on her'

‘I thought daughter, 7, was messing around but then I checked on her' View 3 Images

Jayne Biggs has spent years installing hundreds of publicly accessible defibrillators, teaching thousands of people CPR and raising funds for her charity Heart 2 Heart Norfolk after her daughter, Violet, suffered a sudden cardiac arrest at the age of seven.

She said: “People say to me, ‘we should get a defib because everyone around here is old’, but sudden cardiac arrest doesn’t discriminate against anyone, 12 people under 35 die from sudden cardiac arrest every week.”

The event that changed the Biggs family started off as an ordinary evening in February 2013. Jayne recalled hearing Violet coughing upstairs, which was odd as Violet was a competitive ballroom and Latin dancer as well as a scout and ha