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Mark Speight presented children's art programme SMart on the BBC

Mark Speight's mum dies after his suicide

Jacqueline Speight had suspected stroke

Monday, 8 September 2008

Mark Speight’s mum has been found dead at her Wolverhampton home.

Jacqueline Speight
, 62, passed away from a suspected stroke.

Her youngest son Jason discovered her body on Friday morning.

She had been devastated after Mark, 42, committed suicide at London’s Paddington station in April.

‘With all that happened to Mark, the pressure was too much,’ Mark’s best friend Stuart Goldsmith, 43, tells The Sun.

‘If you lost your son would you ever get over it? You never get over it.’

Mark hanged himself just days after an inquest into the death of his fiancée Natasha Collins, 31.

She died in the bath after a coke binge at their London flat in January.

The SMart presenter was initially arrested on suspicion of murder and supplying Class A drugs but was released without charge.

A joint memorial service will be held for Mark and Natasha at a London church this week.

'After Natasha died, Mark sat with me and said we should to something to celebrate her life,' her mum Carmen tells the Sunday Mirror. 'But tragically, we are now remembering the lives of Natasha and Mark.'

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2 comments

nazareth September 28 00:30

am sorry for everyone this is very sad because the way it has happen, very sad

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safiya November 09 07:28

Hello Speight & Collins family and friends My name is Safiya and I am deaf girl. l always was watched Art smart of Mark and sometimes missed it. l really like Mark because he really hot & sexy and handsome. l was find out about Mark and Natasha make me shocked & upset and l never stop thinking of them. l still miss mark and l wish l want meet Natasha and mark make new friends and get know well of us each other be nice andm going out have fun and enjoy and l want meet them face to face and teach them learn sign laugunages BSL and we have fun but too late now. it is make me really upset and sad been thinking of mark. l lost my twomates already death too. l will never forget about Natasha and mark. lots of love & kiss and hug saf xxxxxxxxxxxx

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