Josh Thompson, aged 22, was coaching tennis in Greece and looking forward to going back to the UK and proposing to his girlfriend. He had even brought the ring when he was told that Abigail Hall, aged 18, had stopped breathing and died.

Distraught, he rushed to her side and slipped the engagement ring on her finger. “The plan was to do this next year after her first year at University,” he said of his girlfriend who had just finished her first week of studying biomedical science. “She was the reason I would wake up in the morning.”