My husband, Bob Casey, who has died of sepsis aged 65, was a youth worker who spent most of his life working with disadvantaged young people in inner city and rural areas of Britain.
The eldest of three children of Enid (nee Bradshaw), a ward clerk at the Royal Preston hospital, and Jim Casey, a messenger for what is now NatWest Bank, Bob was born and grew up in Preston, Lancashire. He served an apprenticeship at British Aerospace and worked there as an engineer before leaving in the early 1980s to test his vocation to the priesthood at Ushaw College, Durham. Following five years in the seminary, he left before ordination to train instead as a youth and community worker in London.
