A wife has told of her heartbreak after her husband died two days after the couple got married. Gavin Howarth, 30, was found to be suffering from multiple cancers in a shock diagnosis on Easter Sunday and given just two months to live.
Plans were quickly made for him and girlfriend Kirsty, 27, to marry, but when his health took a sudden turn for the worse on April 30, they ended up tying the knot in their front room of their Rochdale home that evening.
Tragically Gavin died less than two days later. The couple had one son together, three-year-old Lucian, and Gavin was also stepdad to Kirsty’s older son Bryce, seven.
Kirsty’s mum Sandra Whittaker said: "They were a really special couple. "Gavin was a great man, smiling all the time - he had