Lawyers for the Asbestos Victims Support Groups Forum UK and mesothelioma sufferers Ian Doughty and Carole Sloper brought a legal challenge, arguing that mesothelioma sufferers, whose
terminal lung condition is caused by exposure to asbestos, are typically of modest means — their illness makes them disabled within the terms of the Equality Act 2010.
The following year, suffering from a grave heart
condition and
terminal lung cancer, a doctor informed him the brutalities of the bullring and hard living meant he could no longer ride his beloved horses, smoke, drink or fuck.