Mum's heartbreak after dropping her phone down loo with last messages from daughter who died at sleepover

Mum's heartbreak after dropping her phone down loo with last messages from daughter who died at sleepover

Dawn Cubin lost daughter Hannah - her only child - at the age of just 14 when she suddenly died from an undetected heart condition.

A grieving mum can see her tragic daughter’s last messages from beyond the grave after a successful repair to her mobile phone which she dropped down the loo.

Dawn Cubin lost daughter Hannah - her only child - at the age of just 14 when she suddenly died from an undetected heart condition in December.

She took comfort from the texts she still had from her on her mobile phone - until it accidentally fell into the toilet.

The pair had exchanged thousands of messages on Whatsapp and text message, but 40 were particularly special.

One read: “Going to bed now. Night, night. Love you. See you in the morning. xxx” while others were more “mundane” but still “meant the world” to Dawn.

The phone also included dozens of messages of support from friends and family as well as precious videos and photos which were saved to the sim card.

Dawn, 51, fished the phone out of the water and desperately tried to dry it off in a bowl of rice but without success.

She then took it to a local repair shop but feared she had lost the treasured texts for good.

One of the text messages rescued from the phone of Hannah Cubin (Image: Cubin family / SWNS)

Owner Adie Lanc worked through the night and to Dawn’s delight he called her the following day to say he had recovered all the messages.

Dawn, of Cruwdell, Wiltshire, said: “I was really upset when my phone went down the loo as Hannah’s messages and those of love and support from so many people were lost.

“I burst out crying when he told me but I don’t know what I would do if I had lost them.”

Teen Hannah died on December 10 last year from an idiopathic cardiac fibrosis of the left ventricle despite being “super fit" and a black belt in Taekwondo.

Hannah dreamed of following in the footsteps of her dad Andy, 54, a former Red Arrows pilot who was awarded the MBE for his 20-year RAF service.

He flew with the crack display team between 1996 and 1999 before becoming a civilian pilot.

He flew with Virgin and BMI and Wizzair before joining BA in 2012 and currently flies the Airbus on short-haul European routes.