The mum of a gifted pupil who died after falling ill with meningitis is taking part in a charity walk.
Carolyn Tait from Carshalton, will walk to Durham University, where her daughter Georgia had secured a place at the university, this weekend.
Sutton High School A-level student Georgia Tait died on Sunday, July 10, just 24 hours after falling ill with meningitis on her 18th birthday.
Mrs Tait said: “I am walking because I would have been taking Georgia to start her degree at Grey College Durham University this weekend, so it feels important and symbolic to walk there for Meningitis UK.
“I will be wearing her walking boots and walking with her in spirit.”
Mrs Tait will walk 16 miles with her mother, Georgia’s grandmother Margaret, at her side for the first leg of Meningitis UK’s 328-mile fundraising Bridge the Gap walk.
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