article_snippet.sent: died suddenly earlier this year following a 12-year cancer battle.
article_snippet.sent: The retired stonemason was a close friend of Colin Cosheril, 63, whose sudden death from heart failure last year is being also being looked at.
article_snippet.sent: throat cancer had recently spread to Mrs Deegan chest and specialists in Guernsey had warned the family Mrs Deegan did not have long left before Mrs Deegan died in January.
article_snippet.sent: Relatives: Cousins Karen and Colin Cosheril were patients of the Alderney family doctor when Relatives: Cousins Karen and Colin Cosheril died.
article_snippet.sent: Karen, 52, left, died in January of pneumonia and Colin, 63, right, died of heart failure in May last year .
article_snippet.sent: but us knew It was going to happen because the lung specialist in Guernsey told us.'