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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Paige Oldfield & Graeme Murray

Girl, 13, came home from school with agonising 'growing pains' then got horror diagnosis

A teenager came home from school with what her mum thought were 'growing pains' - but just 24 hours later she was given a devastating diagnosis.

Ruby Chiege was suffering after a day in the classroom, but her mum Debra assumed it was all part of a change in her body.

A day later, however, their lives faced turmoil which prompted a member of the family to make a great sacrifice.

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