In loving memory

Hospital equipment worth £3,500 has been donated in the memory of two young people who died of heart conditions.

Wrexham Maelor Hospital has been given two 24-hour Holter monitors for use by the cardi0-respiratory department.

The presentation was made by Doreen Harley, inquest supporter for charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (Cry).

The monitors were bought with funds raised during the last three years in memory of Lisa Jane Browne and Karl Thomas.

Doreen, or Connah's Quay, said: "Penycae Football Team raised more than £2,000 on Boxing Day 2005 in memory of Karl. Friends and family of my daughter Lisa throughout Flintshire and North Wales have donated money in her memory over recent years."

Lisa died on January 10, 1998, aged 27. She was a nurse in Chester and the cause of her death was Long QT syndrome: she died when startled by her alarm clock ringing.

Karl Thomas died on May 19, 1998, aged 14, during an art lesson at school. The cause of his death was recorded as an arrhythmia.

CRY provides counselling for bereaved families, information on the most common causes of unexpected cardiac death in under 35s, donates medical equipment to doctors surgeries and hospital units and raises awareness of sudden death syndrome.