Snooker legend Willie Thorne is locked in a room in a Spanish hospital as he battles leukaemia - with his children unable to visit him due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Thorne, 66, has been diagnosed with leukaemia and is to start chemotherapy treatment in Spain, where he now lives. One of the biggest stars of snooker in the 1980s, Thorne has also battled prostate cancer, while he went through a divorce last year and a serious gambling addiction saw him declared bankrupt in 2016.
But he says the latest blow in his life has been "unbelievable" and "a nightmare". Having gone into hospital believing he had a kidney infection, Thorne was given the devastating news that he was suffering from leukaemia.
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