A teenage girl with a rare form of leukaemia died after being 'drastically let down' by health professionals, her grieving mum says. Katie Wilkins had a 'bright future ahead of her' and dreamed of becoming a paramedic.
But the Warrington teenager sadly died aged just 14 on July 31, 2020, at Alder Hey children's hospital following a cancer battle, the Liverpool Echo reports. At an inquest into her death this morning (May 23), heartbroken mum Jeanette Whitfield told the coroner: "She should still be here with me."
Speaking at Liverpool Gerard Majella Courthouse, she added: "I lost a part of my heart that day, my best friend and her sister's best friend. You put your trust and everything in the experts so you don't expect to learn how drastically she was let down."
