Melanie Tait is raising money for the charity she set up following the death of her son Jordan.
A woman with terminal cancer has completed a parachute jump in the memory of her footballer son who was killed on a night out.Ms Tait launched the charity after Matlock Town player Mr Sinnott, 25, was fatally injured in January 2020.Ms Tait, a former police detective, was diagnosed with a rare cancer in August 2022 and has been undergoing chemotherapy in the run up to the parachute jump in Filey, Yorkshire, on Sunday.
"So when the chance came up to do it and raise some money for two causes that are very special to me, I knew I had to."Ms Tait, from Bradford, added: "My cancer is terminal and I wasn't given long to live but I'm still here and living my life to the full.
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