Mother-of-three died of cancer after washing engineer husband's asbestos tainted overalls - ten years after losing him to the same illness Son Jeff Davies, 63, took legal action and has now been awarded compensation READ MORE: How cases of asbestos cancer mesothelioma are rising in women By John Ely Deputy Health Editor For Mailonline Published: 14:54 BST, 3 July 2024 | Updated: 15:15 BST, 3 July 2024 e-mail View comments Children of a devoted wife who got a deadly cancer from washing her husband's work cloths have been awarded compensation for the tragedy. Mother-of-three Joan Davies regularly washed her husband David's overalls after his long days working in power stations between the 50s and 80s. But these dusty garments were covered in deadly asbestos which both David, and by doing the laundry, Joan were breathing in a fact that would eventually kill them.
Their children recalled their father coming home covered in dust from drilling into deadly asbestos at the power station. Then their mother would shake out of his overalls before washing them in the garage - not realising she was also breathing in the cancerous dust. Mother-of-three Joan Davies regularly washed her husband David's overalls after his long days working in power stations between the 50s and 80sc, not realising she was breathing in cancerous dust David died aged 89 from mesothelioma in 2012, a cancer of the lining of the lung linked to asbestos exposure- with Joan herself dying 10 years later at 89, with th.
