Brian Hurton died after calling 999 for urgent help.04:30, 10 Jul 2026Two harrowing 999 calls just ten minutes apart were made by Brian before his death.‌In each call, Brian tells the call handler he is struggling for breath. Each time he is told an ambulance is not being dispatched straight away and he should wait to be called back by a clinician.‌In these Scottish Ambulance Service transcripts, demanded by his family, he can be heard gasping and breathing heavily, repeatedly saying “Oh” as he is hit by waves of pain. In the second, he says “please” twice after telling the call handler he is “losing breath”.‌It was three hours and 24 minutes from the time that Brian first called for help at 5.55pm on November 18 before an ambulance arrived at his home, where he was already dead. The calls