A MOTHER of eight children has described the heartbreaking moment she tried to revive her 31-year-old husband before he suddenly died at their home in Dyffryn Ardudwy.

James Warner died in the early hours of Friday, 4 December, after becoming unwell.

His wife, Cloe Green, 27, said she has been left devastated and described him as a man who was “completely devoted to his family”.

She said: “James woke up around 4.30am and was acting quite odd, he suddenly just went into a fit on the bed and stopped breathing.

“I rang the ambulance straight away and I started doing CPR on him to try and get him breathing again until the paramedics got there.

“When the paramedics arrived they carried on with the CPR but sadly he never came back to us.

“It all happened so quickly, I was so shocked. Before we went to bed it had just been like any other normal day, he wasn’t ill so I just don’t know why this has happened.”

A post-mortem was carried out on Monday, 7 December and North West Wales coroner Dewi Pritchard is now awaiting test results to determine the cause of death, which may take up to three weeks.

James, who worked at the Pavilion Café in Barmouth, leaves behind his eight children – Leo, nine, Levi, six, Oliver, four, Megan, three, Miley, two, Lacey, one, Lexie, one and Elijah, 14 weeks.

Cloe added: “The younger children don’t really understand what has happened but the older ones do and they are heartbroken.”

Since the shocking news of James’ death, the community villagers have rallied round to raise almost £1,000 to help towards his funeral.

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