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Man complained of runny nose and was dead 36 hours later

When Kami Leatherbarrow treated her little brother Rhys to chicken and chips to cheer up him after he came down with a runny nose, she had no idea that that that meal would be his last.

Just 36 hours after tucking into his favourite meal, Rhys died of multi-organ failure brought on by sepsis - just two days before Christmas Day.

“We’re still waiting for him to come out from behind his bedroom door,” Kami, 31, told the Manchester Evening News. “He would always come out and wind me up.

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