A mum left behind her two teenage daughters after she died from an extremely rare infection in her spine and brain.
Judith Thorpe fell ill with Covid-19 on Saturday, August 6, and was rushed to hospital when she had a seizure. Doctors believe the 49-year-old had a rare form of the virus which entered the spinal cord before entering her brain which led to the NHS cleaner being admitted to intensive care and then diagnosed as brain dead. Fewer than 20 people across the world are affected the same way.
Her family took the decision to withdraw life support on Wednesday. The death means her daughters Hannah, 16, and Scarlett, 13, are now being looked after by their half-brother Lewis, 24, and his partner after their dad, John Lydon, died of cancer in 2015.
