A lucky ESCAPE

A shopping trip for presents ended in terror for Christina Surgey, 46, and her husband, Tony

WORDS: KARA O’NEILL.

Wandering around Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield, Christina Surgey, then 39, and her husband, Tony, 45, just had one thing left to tick off their list. It was December 2012, and they’d been Christmas shopping for most of the day, starting in the Disney Store to pick up a cuddly Minnie Mouse toy for their daughter, Emma, seven. The couple, laden with bags, just needed to stop off in a card shop for gift wrap and they were done. Christina was already thinking about where they’d be going for dinner to celebrate a successful day’s shopping as Tony stood at the counter paying for the last of their bits. ‘It was as I was half-daydreaming, standing slightly behind Tony, that I realised he was slumping to the side,’ Christina remembers.…

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