A girl who loved a lavish ladies’ weekend celebration in Dubai to rejoice her fortieth birthday collapsed and died as she was travelling dwelling.
Vanessa Brown suffered a suspected coronary heart assault as she was leaving the desert state the place she had gone for a four-day break with girlfriends.
Ms Brown, from Wolverhampton, was awarded an OBE, for her work campaigning for victims of the Windrush scandal.
The mother-of-two’s grown up daughters had been apparently unaware of any current well being points so her sudden demise on Sunday, tenth, March, got here as an infinite shock to her household.
And their heartache was compounded as the daddy of her youngest daughter, Erol, had handed away only a week earlier than.
Vanessa Brown (pictured) suffered a suspected coronary heart assault as she was leaving the desert state
Ms Brown was on a lavish ladies’ weekend celebration in Dubai to rejoice her fortieth birthday
Her grief-stricken sister Maria Brown informed MailOnline: ‘We’re all totally heartbroken. Inside per week my niece Vaneigha has misplaced each her dad and mom and her child boy has misplaced his grandparents.’
Ms Brown, a civil servant, was normally the ‘life and soul’ of the celebration. However she started feeling unwell shortly after arriving within the Gulf city-state on Wednesday.
Maria defined: ‘Vanessa had lengthy deliberate to go to Dubai for her fortieth birthday. She was actually wanting ahead to it.
‘She is normally the life and soul of the celebration.
‘However when she acquired there she was not feeling effectively. She went to the hospital to get checked over. However between the hospital and the resort she handed out.
‘We nonetheless do not know what occurred, however from what we perceive she suffered a cardiac arrest.’
Vanessa’s family members have been inundated with messages of help as household and pals honour the favored and far liked girl from Wolverhampton.
In 2020 she was awarded the OBE for her volunteer work on the Windrush Reform Programme serving to British topics – many from the Caribbean descent – who have been detained, denied authorized rights or threatened with deportation.
Vanessa labored for the Dwelling Workplace, supplying info for greater than 2,000 folks affected by the scandal. She additionally volunteered on the London Olympics in 2012.
A dedicated Christian, Vanessa worshipped at plenty of church buildings in Wolverhampton and was a member of a gospel choir.
Her sister Maria requested well-wishers to hope for her sister, in a Fb put up.
She wrote: ‘What am I going to do? The one which taught me the whole lot I do know, we had one another’s again regardless.
The mother-of-two’s grown up daughters had been apparently unaware of any current well being points
‘I am asking you all to hope, pray for our household. I am alive however I am not residing… That is the one option to clarify it.’
Maria Brown is working with the Overseas Workplace to repatriate Vanessa’s stays to the UK.
A Overseas Workplace spokeswoman stated: ‘We’re offering help to the household of a British girl who died in Dubai.’
A memorial service to honour Vanessa’s reminiscence will held upon her return.
