‘If an ambulance had been here within half an hour, I think Garry would still be here’
Garry Mogg's wife, Emma, called 999 after he reported chest pains but paramedics took 1 hour 43 minutes to arrive and he died in agony' at home in Bath
The evening before he died, Garry Mogg mowed the lawn, then sat up chatting to his adult daughter, the second of his four children. Having been told by his doctor a few months earlier that he had high cholesterol, the 63-year-old had overhauled his diet, choosing vegetables over pasties and scotch eggs and cutting back on his favourite chocolate biscuits. He felt better than he had done for a long time, he told her that night.
Early the following morning, Garry woke with chest pains at the family home in Oldfield Park, Bath. By 8am he was dead from a cardiac arrest, after waiting an hour and 43 minutes for an ambulance that according to NHS guidelines should have arrived in less than 20.
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