Girl's heartbreaking tribute to 'amazing dad' who died after taking laughing gas

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An eight-year-old girl has paid tribute to her 'amazing and loving' dad who died after taking laughing gas with a friend. Matthew Brannelly, from Chorley, Lancashire, had inhaled around 35 balloons of nitrous oxide from eight canisters in the space of around 50 minutes while sitting in his work van.

An inquest into his death at Preston Coroner Court heard on Tuesday that the 29-year-old groundworker was with Steve Houghton where they inhaled the balloons in the car park at Duxbury Park Golf Club in Chorley, on October 20 last year.

Mr Houghton told the inquest his pal had started taking the gas around 18 months ago. He said: “He’d been taking it for about a year and-a-half. “I think he was sniffing lighter gas too but with lighter gas he