A woman who lost sister, brother and dad has died at the age of 34 after fighting for life with kidney failure. Suzanne Shipley managed to battle on for four months despite doctors predicting she had just two weeks to live at Christmas.
Ms Shipley, from Great Sankey in Warrington, was already reeling from the death of her sister Claire, who passed away six months ago from a heart complication.
A Type 1 diabetes patient, Ms Shipley had been suffering from kidney failure, and at the end of the year, medics informed they had exhausted all their options.
Tragically, her family has been beset by tragedy, with her dad Graham dying years ago due to the same illness, and her brother who went blind at 19, 12 years before he himself passed away,