A mum's life was completely ripped apart after her son died from an undiagnosed brain tumour days before her ex reportedly took his own life.
Abby Bartlett's 'fit and healthy' son Corey, seven, had fallen ill with a high temperature before dying suddenly after collapsing on the bathroom floor.
Doctors had initially thought he had coronavirus, with his symptoms including a sore throat, but he tested negative, while his mum admitted her son was a "ticking time bomb".
The 43-year-old, of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent then suffered further heartache when her ex and Corey's dad Michael Bartlett, 46, died three days later.
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