Tragedy as ‘selfless’ mum-of-two, 41, dies during routine surgery leaving behind devastated husband & teenage daughters

DEVASTATED household members person paid tribute to a "selfless" mum-of-two who died aft a regular surgery.

Jane Neasham tragically passed distant aged 41 aft an cognition to region her gallbladder astatine University Hospital North Durham connected December 18.

Jane near down her heartbroken hubby Michael arsenic good arsenic her teenage girls Delilah, 15, and Emmy, 13.

Her member Mark, 43, told the Echo: “We’d each played excavation with Jane the nighttime earlier and had a fantastic time. She’d already wrapped each of her Christmas presents.

“She was conscionable a remarkably kind, selfless idiosyncratic – I can’t ideate anyone much selfless actually.

“The happening she couldn’t basal much than thing successful the satellite was unfairness and injustice. From being a small girl, she conscionable could not basal the thought of thing not being fair.

“There’s conscionable a immense void. When idiosyncratic is that kind, you benignant of instrumentality it for granted.”

Sister Claire Wilson, 45, said: “Jane was specified a kind-hearted, generous, fantastic quality and sister, but supra each friend. It’s intolerable to explicit however devastating it is to suffer her.”

Jane took a pb relation successful campaigning St Leonard’s successful Durham, which was 1 of the worst affected schools successful the state by the RAAC crisis.

When St Leonards was plunged into chaos successful September 2023, Jane stepped up, mounting up a parents’ WhatsApp and moving with the schoolhouse and calling connected politicians for action.

She astir precocious worked arsenic an acquisition argumentation serviceman astatine Durham University, since May 2023.

Jane, from Shadforth colony adjacent Durham, garnered signatures for a petition, conducted interviews with property and met with MP Mary Kelly Foy and now-Education Secretary Bridget Philipson to sermon the issues astatine St Leonard’s.