Wife of ‘Great Escaper’ Bernard Jordan dies days after her husband’s death

The wife of a war veteran who slipped away from his care home to attend last year’s 70th anniversary D-Day events in France has died, just days after his death.

Irene Jordan, 88, died on Tuesday, seven days after the death of her husband Bernard Jordan, who was nicknamed the Great Escaper after his cross-Channel adventure last summer.

He died in hospital aged 90 on December 30, just six months after he captured Britons’ hearts when he travelled to D-Day events in Normandy wearing his war medals and a grey mac.