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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Laura Sharman

‘Healthy’ girl left ‘locked inside her body’ by incurable condition

Lucy, pictured as a baby, had a healthy birth and developed normally until 18 months old - (Collect/PA Real Life)

A mother has revealed how her seemingly healthy daughter was diagnosed with a rare incurable condition after she noticed her start pulling her hair out as a baby.

Lucy Glenn, from Portsmouth, was learning to walk and talk as normal when her behaviour suddenly changed, her mother Katherine McCready, 31, said.

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