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Personal injury solicitor helps widow make claim

A widow has contacted a personal injury solicitor after being told that her husband would have lived for another 18 years if he hadn't died from mesothelioma.

Maureen Willson from Maidstone, Kent, decided to make an asbestos compensation claim following the death of her husband, John, who died last year from an asbestos-related disease.

John, 65, had worked as a driver for the South Eastern Gas Board throughout the 1960s and regularly moved gas appliances that contained asbestos.

A coroner confirmed that the former SEGB worker had died from an industrial death and may have lived for another 18 years had he not been exposed to the asbestos materials.

Maureen has now appealed to other employees who may be suffering from mesothelioma or asbestosis to come forward and speak to her solicitors.

She said, "I want other men out there who worked in the 1960s to have more help than we have had, and I'd like someone to own up and say they were responsible for John dying. He worked and he handled asbestos - so someone, somewhere is responsible for it."

Her personal injury solicitor said, "It's very important that we establish what work practices were back in the 1960s."