Gary Speed’s widow Louise loses second husband Quinton Bird to brain cancer, aged 53
Bird and Louise wedded in December 2021 in Peckforton Castle in Cheshire
File photo dated 15/05/2011 of Gary Speed and wife Louise attending Shay Given’s Fashion Kicks event held at Lancashire County Cricket Club in Manchester. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Monday January 30, 2012. There is no evidence to suggest that former Wales football manager Gary Speed intended to take his own life, Cheshire coroner Nicholas Rheinberg ruled today. See PA story INQUEST Speed. Photo credit should read: Ian West/PA Wire 
Quinton Bird, the second husband of Gary Speed’s widow Louise, has died aged 53.
The property developer died two years after he was reportedly diagnosed with brain cancer.
Bird and Louise wedded in December 2021 in Peckforton Castle in Cheshire, 10 years after the death of Speed.
The duo had been business partners for approximately six years and were founders of Chester-based renovations company Bow Property Development.
Bird’s father Roy paid tribute to him by saying that he was “devastated” to lose his son “at such a young age”.
He added that his son was a “wonderful” father and the entire family “had been left with a wealth of beautiful and extraordinary memories”.
Speed died by suicide in his Cheshire home in 2011. A coroner later ruled that Speed’s suicide may have been accidental.
In a narrative verdict, Cheshire coroner Nicholas Rheinberg said that “the evidence does not sufficiently determine whether [his death] was intentional or accidental”.
The inquest at Warrington Coroner’s Court heard that Speed texted his wife days before his death and “talked in terms” of suicide
In a statement at the time, Speed’s family said “there have been some very dark moments, which we have all had to find our own different ways to endure”.
“Gary’s funeral was an occasion of great sadness and grief for everyone concerned but it was also a day where we were able to say farewell to him in our own personal and private way,” they said.
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