13-05-2025
Hannah Deacon obituary: Mother who changed the law
Like any member of generation EasyJet, Hannah Deacon remembered her formative globetrotting as spontaneous, boozy and exuberant. 'I did my A-levels, went to Australia for a year, which was brilliant — I drank far too much and had far too much fun,' she said in a 2021 interview with The Times. On returning to the UK, she became a tour co-ordinator for First Choice Holidays, running trips for groups of schoolchildren. 'I used to go to Italy all the time … the ski resorts.' Deacon steered clear of the slopes herself. 'I've skied once in my life and nearly killed myself,' she recalled with a travel took a more consequential turn in 2017, when Deacon — by now a full-time carer — and
