FAMILY JOIN CAMPAIGN TO RAISE AWARENESS IN BID TO PREVENT ANOTHER HEARTBREAKING TRAGEDY

THE family of a Cambridge student who died from an asthma attack after collapsing in a nightclub have urged university-goers to take the condition seriously.

- By JANE KIRBY, PA

Zoe Nunn, 20, was studying politics at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge when she fell ill with asthma and suffered a cardiac arrest.

As a child, she had been admitted to hospital with asthma, but had not had an attack for a long time and was not carrying her blue reliever inhaler.

Her mother Louise Nunn, 49, father Mark, 52, and sister Lily, 27, have now joined forces with the charity Asthma + Lung UK to warn students heading off to university to always carry inhalers if they have asthma.

Mrs Nunn, from Ipswich, told the PA news agency: “Zoe was in a nightclub with friends.

"Probably because she was having difficulty, she'd gone into the toilet, and she was found collapsed in the toilet in cardiac arrest.

“We were woken up in the middle of the night by the police and we were blue-lighted to the hospital in a police car, which was traumatic.

“We were told right at that very first point that things didn’t look good because she had been in cardiac arrest for so long.

“Although they got her heartbeat back, she obviously had suffered brain damage by that point...

“We were told to bring family in to say goodbye.”