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Steven Smith & Joe Smith & Louise Lazell

Mum, 32, collapses and dies days after giving birth due to 'preventable' illness

A mum-of-three died five weeks after giving birth to her youngest child - leaving her family with just a single picture of them together.

Samantha Crosbie, 32, was overjoyed when her baby girl Betty was born in February 2020, after a long pregnancy which left her with crippling pelvic pain.

Only one picture was ever taken of Samantha with her three children as her life was cruelly cut short on March 16 that year after just five precious weeks as a family of five.

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