Equipment to help emergency cardiac patients has been given to St John Ambulance volunteers in memory of young victims of a hidden heart defect. 

Around £4,000 was raised by supporters of the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) to buy a defibrillator for the service. 

It will be used in The New Stadium Swansea. 

Paulette Smith, of Heol-y-Ffin in Clydach, the South Wales representative of CRY said: “We wanted the defibrillator to go to the stadium because it is a place where so many young people will meet regularly, for sport or pop concerts. 

“Of course the equipment can be used by anyone who needs it, but the stadium is somewhere where there will always be a lot of young people and we thought it was a good place for a defibrillator to go, just in case.” 

The equipment was handed over in a presentation in Clydach, attended by St John Ambulance officials, Swansea Lord Mayor Mair Gibbs, Lord Lieutenant Robert Hastie and Gower AM Edwina Hart. 

Much of the money has been raised by friends and family of Alun Jones, from Alltwen, who died in 2003 from a hidden heart complaint.  He was the cousin or rugby star Robert Jones.