Mum died of cancer after washing her husband’s work clothes – 10 years after same illness killed him

A MUM died of cancer from washing her husband’s work clothes a decade after the horror disease killed him.

Mum-of-three Joan Davies routinely washed husband David’s overalls when he worked in power stations from the 1950s-1980s.

A devoted wife died from washing her husband’s work clotheswalesnewsservice David worked in power stations for decades, and later died of cancer from inhaling the deadly asbestoswalesnewsservice

The problem, later proving fatal, was that David’s clothes were covered in asbestos...