This is Cheshire.co.uk,March 27th 2008 reported that the wife of a retired painter and decorator who died of mesothelioma has spoken of her anger that he contracted asbestos-related cancer through his work.
Jean Robinson said words could not describe her emotions when she was told that Alan, her husband of 30 years, had between three to 18 months to live.
He was 67 when he was diagnosed last March with the killer disease mesothelioma after suffering from chronic breathing problems for previous months.
He had spent 15 years, from 1955 to 1970, working as a painter and decorator for the former Crosfields Works, off Liverpool Road, and it was during this time that he was exposed to asbestos.
Mrs Robinson, who is 56, said: "We saw a consultant at Broadgreen Hospital who told us the bad news that nothing could be done and they were 99 per cent sure it was mesothelioma."
Mr Robinson would follow workers lagging pipes with asbestos before painting them and he remembers the dust could be seen in the atmosphere.
"We ate our dinner and had our brews in that atmosphere and we would shake the dust off our overalls in the locker room," he said during our interview this week.
"We weren't told anything about the dangers or given the proper gear, which would have countered it.
Crosfields was taken over by Unilever some years ago.
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