When Craig McKinnon proposed to his fiancée while on vacation in South Africa, he was a happy man, but four days later he was in mourning for Jess Prinsloo.
The young woman would have used the wrong spoon to brew her tea. It appears she suffered from a severe dairy allergy and died of it, reports The Mirror.
Instead of making wedding plans with his fiancée, Craig McKinnon, 24, returned to the UK with the young woman’s ashes last Monday.
“A lot of her family lives in South Africa and she hadn’t been in six years, so I knew there was no better place to propose to her,” the youngster said. bereaved man.
The couple had been away for a week when Craig knelt down at God’s Window in Mpumalanga to pop the question.
Happy, the couple visited Jess’ mother in Johannesburg a few days later. Inadvertently, the young woman came into contact with dairy products while stirring her tea.
Within seconds, she went into anaphylactic shock and began to choke. She died the next day at the hospital. She always had two Epipen with her, but that didn’t save her.
“When Jess died, a part of me died too, but there’s no one to blame for her passing,” her fiancé said.
Craig, who works in insurance, met Jess at college in 2019.
