A FATHER came home from a Mothering Sunday church service to find his 20-year-old student son dead.

David Wesson, an apparently fit and healthy young man, was found collapsed in bed by his father, Richard, who had returned to the family's home in Weatherhill Crescent, Brierfield.

He tried desperately to revive his eldest son and then called for an ambulance after he got no response. Paramedics broke the heart-breaking news that there was nothing they could do.

Today the family was still trying to understand why their sports-mad son had died.

"He was training to take part in a triathlon," said his mother Diane, a teacher at St Paul's School, Nelson. "He was very fit and healthy and had started training with Nelson Swimming Club. We can't understand what happened."

David had completed two years of a three-year course in building surveying at Wolverhampton University. He had taken a year out to work with his father in the borough engineer's department of Pendle Council.

He went out with friends on Saturday night, returning to a friend's house to watch the Bruno-Tyson boxing match.

"He hadn't been drinking or anything like that," said Mr Wesson. "His friends say he only had a couple of cans."

David returned home about 5.30am on Sunday and went to bed.

"He was all right about 9am because he asked me to turn my television down," said his brother Mark, 13.

Mark and his parents went to the Mother's Day service at Colne Road Methodist Church, Burnley, while the couple's other son, 18-year-old Simon, played football.

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