Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing The great-grandfather of a toddler who died after swallowing a button battery took his own life, his heartbroken family has said.
Peter Nicklin, 79, “couldn’t cope” following the death of his two-year-old granddaughter Harper-Lee Fanthorpe. His son, and Harper-Lee’s grandad, Darren Nicklin said his father had not been himself since the Staffordshire toddler passed away, Stoke-on-Trent Live reports. READ MORE: £5.5m lottery winner's ex-partner admits trying to murder her in their £700k cottage The little girl tragically died in May during surgery after her sister phoned an ambulance when she started coughing up blood in her home.
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