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Ryan Fahey

Devastated parents share agony of losing two children just three months apart

A grief-stricken dad has spoken of the heartache of losing his two children - one to a rare genetic condition just three months after their unborn child died in pregnancy.

Little Charlie Rooke was admitted to hospital with a paralysed diaphragm in May 2019 when he was just eight months old.

Six months later in November, his parents Sarah and Andy - from Birkenhead in Merseyside - were told the youngster's condition - which causes muscle weakness and respiratory failure, was terminal.

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