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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Kim Pilling & Charlotte Hadfield

Mum says 'beautiful little boy deserves chance' of potentially life saving treatment

A mum has made a desperate appeal to a court to give her son "a chance" of a potentially life-saving kidney transplant.

The Court of Protection, sitting in Liverpool, has been asked to ruled over a treatment dispute involving William Verden, 17, who is on dialysis and suffers from steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome.

His mother Ami McLennan, 45, from Lancaster, has made an appeal for a donor for an operation which is said to have a 50% chance of success.

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