Tributes have been paid to a Bolton father and husband after he died on a family walk earlier this month. Ketan Patel, from Westhougton, died on May 11 this year, aged only 45. He had been on a walk-up Rivington Pike with his wife, Nita, and their eight-year-old daughter when he collapsed.
Members of the public, which included off-duty nurses, performed CPR, before paramedics took over. Tragically, Ketan was pronounced dead at the scene. Speaking to The Bolton News, Nita said: "We normally go to Rivington every year when the weather is nice, that Saturday the weather was quite nice and quite warm.
"In the afternoon we had our lunch at home, my husband drove us to Rivington, we parked up and we started walking. Ketan Patel (Image: Family) "He was fine, there were no signs of him being unwell. We started walking and had rests in between, taking pictures.
"We carried on walking a bit more, then just before getting to the café we took some pictures with our daughter. "We started walking a bit more, and that is when he started to feel unwell, and he collapsed." She added: "He didn't come around after that.
Among the members of the public there were a few nurses who administered CPR until the air ambulance came and took over, they tried their hardest as well. "It took about half an hour trying to revive him and he didn't come round. "From leaving the house and going for the walk to not ever come back again.
" A fundraiser has been launched to install a defibrillator at Fika Riving.
