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Kieren Williams

'Beautiful' bride-to-be, 26, dies in 'heartbreaking' bucking bronco tragedy on night out

A bride-to-be has died of a heart attack after she fell from a mechanical bull.

Jessica Lally, 26, had been aboard the mechanical bull at Bronco’s Rodeo, an American themed bar in Sheffield, when tragedy struck.

She fell from the bull into the padded paddling pool-like area but later went into cardiac arrest and died.

She had been planning to get married to her partner and family said she “had her whole life ahead of her”.

Her mum Joan, 66, said: "She was such a beautiful girl, so kind and funny.

"She'd got her whole life planned. They were going to get married.

Jessica Lally, 26, a bride-to-be died suddenly under tragic circumstances last October (Yorkshire Live/MEN MEDIA)

"She always wrote these fantastic Christmas lists, but that year she'd just put: a house, a ring and a baby."

Joan said Jessica had called in at the bar after having a meal and had not had a lot to drink.

She did not know why her daughter was on it, and assumed it had just been for fun.

But after heading for a night out, Joan had the police at her door by midnight informing her Jessica had died.

The family is still struggling with Jessica's tragic and sudden death last October and described it as "heartbreaking."

Jessica worked as a manager for jewellery company Pandora.

The tragic death rocked the local community where she and her family are from in Kimberworth in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

Over 500 people turned up to mourn her at her funeral, so many so that they could not all fit in the church to say goodbye.

After her death, her relatives are now campaigning for the installation of more defibrillators.

A fundraiser has been set up in her name to help pay for the vital equipment.

Joan was inspired to do so after a trip to Rotherham United.

At the football club, ambulance services were showing her how to use the defibrillator and after what happened to her daughter it struck a cord.

She thought because there were not many locally, fundraising for more could prevent tragic deaths like her own daugther's.

She described it as a "matter of life and death sometimes".

So far more than £10,000 has been raised and Jessica’s cousin, Michael Noone, 47, is planning to run 25 half marathons in 12 weeks - one for every year Jessica lived.

(MEN MEDIA)

Firefighter Michael said they had tried to get a defibrillator to use on Jessica but there was not one of the premises.

A nurse on the premises began to help her but it was not enough to save the young woman.

Like the rest of the family Michael was struggling with the sudden tragedy but had resolved to do all he could with his fundraising.

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