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Wednesday, 11 October 2006 |
British snooker star Paul Hunter dies of cancer
British snooker star Paul Hunter has died young aged only 27 from cancer.
The Leeds snooker player was taken into the Kirkwood Hospice in Huddersfield last Friday and died on Monday evening.
Paul Hunter, a three-time Masters champion, was diagnosed with dozens of neuro endocrine tumours on the lining of his stomach in March 2005.
Paul Hunter would have been 28 on Saturday and he leaves a wife, Lindsey, and a daughter, Evie Rose, who was born on Boxing Day of last year.
Paul Hunter turned professional snooker player at the age of 16 in 1995 and won his first major title, the 1998 Welsh Open, at the age of 19.
Former world champion John Parrott was among the first to pay tribute to Paul Hunter.
"Paul certainly brought a touch of glamour to the game - they called him 'the Beckham of the baize'," John Parrott said, and Stephen Hendry, the seven-times world champion, added: "I'm absolutely devastated by the news."
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