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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Antony Thrower & Mary Harris

Family's horror as doctors and nurses joke about 'Grim Reaper' outside cancer son's room

Great Ormond Street Hospital has apologised after the parents of a young boy with cancer overheard "abhorrent" staff joking about the Grim Reaper.

During his short life, Raffy Holliday, 3, had leukaemia three times, pancreatitis, a blood clot, a bleed between his brain and skull, and two massive seizures.

His parents, Imogen and James, had recently made the heart-wrenching decision to end active treatment for the toddler.

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