Vinnie Jones has praised the life-saving organ law change – and hailed his late wife’s heart transplant. The ex-soccer hardman told how he supports the move to an opt-out donor system, which will come into force in May following the Mirror’s successful Change the Law for Life campaign.
He also revealed that his beloved wife Tanya’s heart operation three decades ago “saved my life, not just hers”. The Mirror campaigned for the opt-out change, known as Max and Keira’s Law, which is set to save an estimated 700 lives a year.
Keira Ball, who died in a car crash at the age of nine, saved four lives – including that of fellow nine-year-old Max Johnson – after her father allowed doctors to use her organs for transplants in 2017.
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