Mother shares daughter’s dying words

 A grieving mother has recalled the last words of her teenage daughter who she said was laughing and joking moments before she collapsed and died from sepsis.

Chloe Christopher, 17, died on New Year’s Eve in 2014 after developing the life-threatening illness.

The student, of Cwmaman, near Aberdare, Wales, was thought to have been suffering a chest infection at the time, when she collapsed and told Michelle, her mother: “Mam, I’m frightened, I don’t feel very well.”

Ms Christopher is now speaking about the tragedy to urge people to learn to recognise the signs of sepsis.

“It was so sudden; one minute laughing and joking, the next she said she felt unwell and a bit scared,” she said in a video by the Welsh Ambulance Service.

Sepsis occurs when the body’s response to an infection injures its own tissues and organs.

It can lead to shock, multiple organ failure and death, especially when not recognised early.