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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Sophie Halle-Richards

'Our happy, healthy daughter told us her belly hurt... twelve hours later we'd lost her forever'

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.

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