Wife of Tommy Pilling ‘utterly devastated’ after partner’s death on New Year’s Day

The husband from the UK’s first couple with Down’s syndrome to marry has died from Covid-19, it has emerged.

Tommy Pilling, 62, from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, who had been treated in three different hospitals since early December with a chest infection, died on New Year’s Day.

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