Ed’s Perfect gift
Sheeran donates guitar to help dying girl’s €55k pain relief fight
Ed and Melody. Below: she tries the guitar court proceedings but backtracked after the case was raised in the Sunday Mirror.
The family is being represented by top lawyer Charles Da Silva, who acted for the family of 11-month-old Charlie Gard – the tot who died after his parents lost a legal wrangle over his care. Karina said: “I’d rather Melody had one more year filled with happiness than five years of pain.” Singer Karina and panel beater Nigel, from Croydon, South London, both gave up their jobs to care for Melody full time. They were horrified when told doctors were weaning her off the painkillers which stop her excruciating pain. Karina added: “It’s only now we realise how few rights Melody, mum and Mirror story, right we have as parents but we won’t give up. Melody can’t speak, so we are her voice. As she screams, she points to her stomach, as if to say: ‘Why aren’t you helping me, Mum’?”
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is unable to comment on Melody’s case, but says “all decisions taken are in our patients’ best interests”. geraldine.mckelvie@
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