FUN DAY TO CELEBRATE OLYMPIC CHAMP'S LIFE
TERRY CROCKFORDTERRY.CROCKFORD@SWWMEDIA.CO.UK
TERRY CROCKFORDTERRY.CROCKFORD@SWWMEDIA.CO.UK
09:00 - 28 July 2007
A Neath family is to stage a charity fun day celebrating the life of a disabled youngster who won gold at the Special Needs Olympics.They announced their plans after attending an inquest into his death, which is thought to have been the result of a massive epileptic attack."I'm sure Jonathan would have loved the idea of a carnival and fun day in his name," said his dad Tony Wyn Jones."We had been asked about a memorial service for him, but we weren't too keen."He was a fun boy and we feel this is what he would have wanted us to do."Twenty-year-old Jonathan was found dead in his bed at home in Sunnybank, Waunceirch, by his mum Glenys on February 21.His father, who was a Radio 1 DJ in the early 1970s and was also a DJ at Top Rank nightclub, Swansea, spoke of the pride the family felt in Jonathan, the youngest of three brothers."We are so proud of him and what he achieved in judo, winning a gold medal and a bronze medal in the Special Needs Olympics in Glasgow in 2005," he said. We buried his gold medal with him but we have kept the bronze."My daughter-in-law, Gemma, is now organising a carnival and fun day for Friday, August 17, at Cwrt Herbert in Neath, as a way of celebrating his life. Some of the Swans and Ospreys will be there and there'll be Irish dancing, a judo display, vintage cars, bouncy castle and a DJ."The money we raise will go to Epilepsy Wales and to his club, the Neath Knights Judo Club."Jonathan had suffered brain damage and was left with learning difficulties after falling from a wall at the age of four.Mr Jones told yesterday's inquest how Jonathan had suffered epileptic fits since the age of eight but had been free of fits for the past three years.Pathologist Kieran O'Brien, who carried out a post mortem examination, said he found no evidence of any drink or drug except for a prescribed anti- epileptic drug, and that was at normal levels.He said the cause of death could not be ascertained but he concluded that the most likely cause was an epileptic seizure.Neath Port Talbot coroner David Osborne recorded that death was due to natural causes.
A Neath family is to stage a charity fun day celebrating the life of a disabled youngster who won gold at the Special Needs Olympics.They announced their plans after attending an inquest into his death, which is thought to have been the result of a massive epileptic attack."I'm sure Jonathan would have loved the idea of a carnival and fun day in his name," said his dad Tony Wyn Jones."We had been asked about a memorial service for him, but we weren't too keen."He was a fun boy and we feel this is what he would have wanted us to do."Twenty-year-old Jonathan was found dead in his bed at home in Sunnybank, Waunceirch, by his mum Glenys on February 21.His father, who was a Radio 1 DJ in the early 1970s and was also a DJ at Top Rank nightclub, Swansea, spoke of the pride the family felt in Jonathan, the youngest of three brothers."We are so proud of him and what he achieved in judo, winning a gold medal and a bronze medal in the Special Needs Olympics in Glasgow in 2005," he said. We buried his gold medal with him but we have kept the bronze."My daughter-in-law, Gemma, is now organising a carnival and fun day for Friday, August 17, at Cwrt Herbert in Neath, as a way of celebrating his life. Some of the Swans and Ospreys will be there and there'll be Irish dancing, a judo display, vintage cars, bouncy castle and a DJ."The money we raise will go to Epilepsy Wales and to his club, the Neath Knights Judo Club."Jonathan had suffered brain damage and was left with learning difficulties after falling from a wall at the age of four.Mr Jones told yesterday's inquest how Jonathan had suffered epileptic fits since the age of eight but had been free of fits for the past three years.Pathologist Kieran O'Brien, who carried out a post mortem examination, said he found no evidence of any drink or drug except for a prescribed anti- epileptic drug, and that was at normal levels.He said the cause of death could not be ascertained but he concluded that the most likely cause was an epileptic seizure.Neath Port Talbot coroner David Osborne recorded that death was due to natural causes.
Fonte: South Wales Evening Post - Swansea, Wales, UK
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