A Wetherby man is "uncertain what the future holds" after he got cancer "from sweeping dust and debris".
The pensioner, who has lived with his wife of 40 years, Denise, began feeling pain in his rib and back in 2021, and five months later he was told of his diagnosis. "It still distresses me when I think about what I’m living with, but I know nothing will change that," Trevor said.Trevor added: "When I first began to feel pain in my ribs and back, I thought it was maybe just the inevitability of getting older but it got worse very quickly so I knew something wasn’t quite right.
Trevor said that during the deliveries, he would be within a few yards of laggers who would mix and apply lagging to pipework. He believes the lagging contained asbestos. Trevor said he would often pass labourers sweeping dust and debris which he would breathe in. Hannah Robinson, the specialist asbestos-related disease lawyer at Irwin Mitchell representing Trevor, said: "It’s been an incredibly tough time for Trevor and his family as they attempt to come to terms with his diagnosis and the uncertainty around what the future may hold. Understandably, they also have many questions over how he could have been exposed to asbestos which led to him developing mesothelioma, a particularly unpleasant and life-limiting disease.