Last night, young snooker player, Paul Hunter died. After 18 months of suffering from neuro-endocrine tumours in his stomach lining, Hunter sadly passed away. At only 27 years of age, Hunter was already a three times master champion of snooker.
Hunter's family, wife Lindsey Hunter and daughter Evie Rose, who is yet to have her first birthday are feeling very distraught by the terrible news. Hunter, who was dubbed "the Beckham of the Baize'' left them five days before his 28th Birthday at 8.20pm at Kirkwood hospice in Huddersfield. 
Whilst suffering from the tumour, Hunter still fought for his snooker passion despite going through chemotherapy. Unluckily for Hunter his health deteriorated and his life came to an end. 
Despite chemotherapy treatment Hunter carried on playing snooker and managed to 
win only one match last season but unfortunatley for him fell from fifth to 34th in the rankings. Former world champion John Parrott believes that its a great loss to the sport but more importantly a great loss to his family.
The seven times world champion Stephen Hendrey told us "Before he took ill, Paul was in the top four in the world and maybe even had his best days to come".