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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Ed Cullinane & Lottie Gibbons

Doctor 'bowed her head' as she read baby's test results to parents

A mum claims she was questioned about abusing her baby after he developed mystery bruises before a blood test confirmed he had leukaemia.

Beth Reilly, 23, became concerned when her son Bailey Kilbane, now 16 months, started developing strange bruises and flu-like symptoms last October. She said despite Bailey being "happy and smiley" she knew something wasn't right.

Beth, from Wallasey, said: “People always just say that you know when your child is not right, and just at that moment that week I felt that.

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