Six years after a 28-year-old suffered a fatal heart attack while playing football, little has been done to stop such a tragedy happening again, a charity says. 

Ian Willoughby of Chipping Norton died of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) in 2000. 

But a new survey by support and research charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) showed 97 per cent of UK primary care trusts had failed to develop strategies for new SADS-specific NHS guidelines published last year, despite about 400 young people dying of it annually. 

CRY chief executive Alison Cox said: "Very little has been done to address what we perceive to be a growing problem in young people." 

When contacted by the Banbury Guardian, Cherwell Vale PCT was unable to say whether it had responded to the strategy guidelines.