A grieving wife has paid tribute to her 'always smiling' husband who died while staying at a seafront hotel. Khuram Ahmed Hussain booked in at the Grand Burstin Hotel in Folkestone after falling ill.
The next day, emergency crews were called after the 31-year-old collapsed in his room. Desperate efforts were made to revive him, but he died at the scene on January 18. Last week, an inquest was opened into the father-of-two's death, with a coroner saying the cause currently remained a mystery.
Khuram's wife, Viktorija Vizgaudaite, 32, paid tribute to the former CitySprint delivery driver, a dad of children aged four and nine. 'He was a good father. He spent all of his free time with the children. Khuram was there for the kids, his family and people he didn't know. He was a very good person who was loved by the community, always helping everybody and always working as hard as he could. Khuram was very caring. Whenever anybody needed help, they would call him in the middle of the night and he'd go out.'
She says Khuram's funeral in Peterborough, where he lived, was very well attended. 'We had never seen so many grown men crying for someone they had lost. He was a very smiley person and was always smiling no matter what.'
Coroner Katrina Hepburn opened an inquest into his death at Oakwood House in Maidstone on Friday morning. She says Khuram's medical cause of death is unascertained, meaning mystery surrounds how he died. The inquest was adjourned until November 21.
