Leeds school staff express '˜deep sadness' after ex-colleague dies in Manchester attack

The family of Wendy Fawell, from Otley had mounted a frantic campaign to find the 50-year-old who had been missing since Monday night’s explosion.

On Thursday, St Oswald’s C of E Primary School, in Guiseley, said on Twitter: “It is with deepest sadness that I confirm that our former colleague Wendy Fawell was killed in the Manchester bombing. RIP, Wendy.”

Ms Fawell was reported to have been about to leave the concert with her 15-year-old daughter Charlotte, along with a friend and her sons, when they were caught in the attack.

Charlotte was taken to hospital in Oldham and her brother, Adam Fawell, 29, began a desperate search for his mother.

Speaking earlier this week, Mr Fawell said: “We are just hoping for anything and something but there is just nothing, nothing, nothing.”

He said: “The support we are getting from friends and family is unbelievable and the stuff that is going around generally is incredible and a little bit overwhelming.”

More than 100 people attended a vigil for Ms Fawell in Otley on Tuesday evening.