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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

‘It’s about what is right’: mother’s fight for shot at new kidney for autistic son

Amy McLennan and her son, William
Amy McLennan and her son, William: ‘He is really kind, he is really helpful.’ Photograph: Joel Goodman/The Guardian

For Amy McLennan, it has felt like taking on the full might of the medical establishment – and it was never going well. “I thought we were going to lose. Up against the NHS? Of course I did.”

Defeat, she said, would have been a death sentence for her 17-year-old son, William Verden.

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