DURING the last weekend in June a group of friends and supporters completed a gruelling overnight 100km sponsored walk.
The walk from the River Adur near Shoreham to Winchester Cathedral was both in celebration of the life and memory of a much-loved man and to raise money to fund the MSA Trust’s research into a rare disease.
Mark Ashthorpe, from Colden Common, who worked for 30 years in the police including as Detective Chief Inspector, died of Multiple Systems Atrophy (MSA) in December 2019, a debilitating progressive neurological disorder condition, only two years after diagnosis.
The walk was both a celebration of his life and to raise money to fund the MSA Trust’s research into this little understood disease.