Traps flowed at the «beautiful» bride who died while riding the Bronco on a night out with friends.
Jessica Lally, 26, suffered a fatal heart attack after falling off a ride in an American-style bar in Sheffield in October.
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She told her grieving family how she climbed aboard a mechanical bull on the side of the bar, at the Rodeo Bronco on West Street.
Jessica then fell into a cushioned pool area and had a cardiac arrest.
Her mum Joanne, 66, said: ‘She didn’t have much to drink. They had already eaten a meal and got called there afterwards.
«I don’t know why she decided to go on with it. I think she was just having fun.
«I just went out for a night out and then we had the police at the door at midnight.
«We still go through it now. Sometimes we still fall to pieces. It was heartbreaking.»
Jessica, who worked as a manager for jewelry company Pandora, was planning to marry her partner «and she had her whole life ahead of her.»
Sad Joan added, «She was a beautiful girl, very cute and funny.
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“She had planned her whole life. They were going to get married.
«She always wrote these wonderful birthday lists, but that year she had just put together: a house, a ring, and a baby.»
Tragedy shook the Kimberworth community in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, where she and her family are.
More than 500 mourners attended the funeral – many of them could not fit all of them in the church.
Relatives are now pouring their grief into a campaign for more defibrillators that could have saved Jessica’s life.
A fundraiser was created in her name to help pay for vital equipment.
Joanne said: “I went down to Rotherham United and the ambulance service was showing me how to use a pacemaker and knowing they were trying to do that with Jessica it caught my eye.
‘I thought ‘What a great idea,’ because we didn’t get any of it locally.
«It’s an important issue, it’s a matter of life and death sometimes, that can save someone’s life.»
She was a beautiful girl, very cute and funny.
Mama Joan
More than £10,000 has been raised so far, and Jessica’s cousin Michael Nunn, 47, plans to increase the total by running 26 half marathons in 12 weeks – one for each year of her life.
Firefighter Michael says it’s essential to have defibrillators on hand so that if someone goes into cardiac arrest, they have a better chance of surviving.
He said: «They eventually got Devip to help Jessica but there wasn’t one in the building.
“I think there was a nurse in the bar she was in, so I immediately started helping her and they eventually got a blemish but unfortunately she passed away that night.
«I was really awful. It was surprising.»
Christopher Brown, general manager of Bronco’s Rodeo, said Jessica «looks like she’s having a seizure» and that the bull «was moving at the slowest pace.
He said, “From CCTV, the lady in the questions seemed to be having a good time with her friends and excited about riding a bull.
“She passed all of our safety checks before boarding the bull. Then very quickly after the ride started it looked like she passed out and slid under her own weight.”
He added: «The venue decided to close down the following week to allow our staff to recover from the trauma and to allow the police and council to conduct their investigations.
«The councils’ investigation shows that the cause of death was not ox-related and unfortunately the official cause of death has not yet been determined.»
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