Sitting in the waiting room at Manchester Children's Hospital, Shaun Stirrup and his wife Pip sat inconsolable with grief and shock.
Just twenty-four hours before, their fit and healthy six-year-old daughter, Milly-Rose, had been eating an ice lolly and playing on her Nintendo Switch.
She'd had the day off school after contracting a bug which had been doing the rounds. A few hours later, she started complaining of belly ache and said her heart was hurting.