FORMER Linden, Beech Grove and Court Fields School, Wellington, student Darren ‘Speedy’ Windsor, 44, has died suddenly of natural causes while on holiday in Goa, India.

Mr Windsor was holidaying with his parents Terry and Dawn Windsor who are due back in this country today (April 11).

Mr Windsor worked with his father Terry, a roofer, and was in the third week of his holiday.

His sister Hayley said: “He was a great, happy, loveable kind character, who would make time and help anyone in need. He especially loved his family and friends. Darren would make friends and put a smile on people’s faces everywhere he went and he died in a place he loved.

“A lady in Goa brought comfort to my mum with the words ‘he died in paradise, his soul is in India and his body in England with everyone who loved him’.”