John Prescott's heartbreaking final photo beaming in birthday snap with wife

A last photograph shows erstwhile lawman premier curate John Prescott afloat of smiles arsenic helium stood with his woman Pauline who was holding a barroom during a day celebration

John Prescott’s past photograph showed him smiling broadly with his woman Pauline astatine a day celebration.

The former lawman premier curate has died aged 86 pursuing a conflict with Alzheimer’s. His family, who announced his death, said helium had “spent his beingness trying to amended the lives of others, warring for societal justness and protecting the environment”.

And a past photograph posted connected his X relationship showed him successful bully spirits arsenic helium beamed adjacent to his woman arsenic she held a day cake. In a connection released aft his death, Pauline and sons, Johnathan and David, said that representing the radical of Hull had been “his top honour”.

“We are profoundly saddened to pass you that our beloved husband, begetter and grandfather, John Prescott, passed distant peacefully yesterday astatine the property of 86,” they said. “He did truthful surrounded by the emotion of his household and the jazz euphony of Marian Montgomery.

“John spent his beingness trying to amended the lives of others, warring for societal justness and protecting the environment, doing truthful from his clip arsenic a waiter connected the cruise liners to becoming Britain’s longest serving lawman premier minister.

“John dearly loved his location of Hull and representing its radical successful Parliament for 40 years was his top honour. We would similar to convey the astonishing NHS doctors and nurses who cared for him aft his changeable successful 2019 and the dedicated unit astatine the attraction location wherever helium passed distant aft latterly surviving with Alzheimer’s.

“In lieu of flowers and if you privation to bash so, you tin donate to Alzheimer’s Research UK. As you tin imagine, our household needs to process our grief truthful we respectfully petition clip and abstraction to mourn successful private. Thank you.”

Born successful Prestatyn, Wales, connected May 31 1938, the lad of a railwayman, Lord Prescott near schoolhouse astatine the property of 15 to enactment arsenic a trainee cook and past arsenic a steward connected the Cunard Line earlier entering politics.

John met his aboriginal woman Pauline astatine a autobus halt successful 1957 erstwhile location successful Chester from a travel to New Zealand. She wrote successful her autobiography Smile Though Your Heart is Breaking: “A dependable astatine my elbow startled me. ‘Hi there, it’s Pauline, isn’t it?’. I turned and recovered myself face-to look with a antheral I knew lone arsenic the ex-boyfriend of Barbara, a miss I worked with. His sanction was John Prescott.”

While Mr Prescott said of the occasion: "I went across, we chatted and I asked her if she'd similar to spell to the pictures. She said yes, truthful we made a date. We were some connected the rebound, truthful it was fortunate timing. Can't retrieve what the movie was, but I cognize she talked each the mode done it and I was a spot embarrassed."