EasyJet crew member meets strangers who saved his life after 'widowmaker' heart attack

A cyclist who suffering a heart attack in a car park was reunited with the strangers who saved his life.

James Heywood collapsed while riding his bike in Widnes, Cheshire in summer last year.

This week James and husband Nathan Shillcock visited Motor Bodies, the garage where the incident happened, to meet and thank the passers-by who saved his life.

Colette Bourke found James lying unresponsive and 'screamed' for help, Rachel Pepper-Brown rang 999, and Julie Major and Alan Shepphard gave CPR.

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It was like any other day on June 15, with Easyjet cabin crew member James riding home on his bike.

But, at around 1pm, he collapsed in heart failure in the car park of the garage on Lunt’s Heath Road, due to a blocked major artery.

First to find him was Colette, who was on the way to a family member’s house when she saw a pair of legs on the ground.

She initially thought he was a mechanic working on the underside of a car - until she saw a bike and on further inspection realised it was someone unconscious.

As the cyclist was between two vans, she couldn’t move him.

Speaking to James she said: “I screamed for a young lad to go and get help, you were too heavy to get you out.

“I ran to the door and they all ran out, I ran back to you screaming and they tried to haul you out.”

The 'young lad' was Connor Kilgannon, an estimator in the car workshop, who raised the alarm with colleagues.

Alan Shepphard, quality control manager, recalled his shock, he said: “Connor burst through the door, I could tell something was wrong.

“He said ‘there’s a guy collapsed on the car park’. I followed him out and saw Julie.”

Julie Major was working in the Motor Bodies Widnes office when she heard Connor’s calls for help and as the site’s primary