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Daniel Fairman was enjoying a hiking trip with friends by Lochinver, Scotland when he was bitten by a tick and developed Lyme disease . Within weeks, he was struggling to sleep and gradually became more unhappy and irritable.

“Dan was incredibly popular – the life and soul of the party,” his eldest sister, Jane Maier, told The i Paper . “He had a very happy family background, was close to our parents, all his siblings, nieces and nephews and we’d all holiday together every year on the Isle of Wight. There was nothing in his background to indicate what would happen next.”

On a subsequent family holiday with his siblings Dan, a university-educated property developer, was “quite ratty” with Jan

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