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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Paige Oldfield

'My little brother said he had a runny nose - 36 hours later he was dead'

Kami Leatherbarrow treated her little brother Rhys to chicken and chips on the day he died. Knowing he was feeling unwell with a headache and runny nose, she wanted to cheer him up with his favourite meal.

That meal would be his last. Little did the family know, sepsis was shutting down Rhys' body with every minute that passed. Less than 36 hours later, he was dead.

“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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