Messages of support have flooded in for a Liverpool FC fan after his son died just days after his sixth birthday.
Matthew Gaut’s son Harry endured three years of treatment for leukaemia but died just eight days after celebrating his birthday. The schoolboy was first diagnosed with ALL (acute lymphoblastic leukaemia) in May 2013, but this had morphed into a more aggressive form of cancer known as AML (acute myeloid leukaemia) by 2016.
A relapse in 2016 resulted in a stem cell transplant, which was Harry's only chance of a cure. Although a match was found for Harry, he sadly developed severe symptoms of graft-versus-host disease (GvHD). This typically occurs when white blood cells received from the donor attack one’s own body cells.
