A conveyancer and popular Zumba teacher, she might have survived if the ambulance had arrived sooner
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‘It’s bad enough losing a loved one,” says Karren Fraser-Knight, a 56-year-old fitness instructor from Cheshire, “but when you lose an identical twin it’s so different. You have such a bond.” Paula Greenhough was the older twin. “My mum didn’t know she was having twins until she gave birth to Paula and my foot fell out,” Karren says. “There were no scans back then!” Paula was also the more dominant twin. “She was more vocal,” says Karren. As teenagers, they fought, sometimes physically. “We were like cats and dogs,” says Karren. “Seriously. Proper fisticuffs when we were younger. We would batter each other. But God help anyone who came between us. We had each other’s backs.”
They were competitive. “If one of us did something, the other had to do it better,” she says, laughing. “We were always trying to outshine each other.” When they were teenagers, they rode horses: if Karren got a rosette in a competition, Paula had to win two. When Karren qualified as a Zumba instructor, Paula got her certificate as well.
