A teenager died just 30 minutes before she was due to get a potentially life-saving bone-marrow transplant from her younger sister.Kimberley Jones, 17, was due to be operated on at noon but died at 11.30am that day from complications with her leukaemia.
Surgeons had hoped a bone-marrow match with 15-year-old sister Amanda would save her.
Amanda had travelled with her family from Oswestry, Shropshire, on Monday for the operation at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.
The transplant was due for the following day but Kimberley became seriously ill and was put in intensive care, where she died.
Heartbroken mother Michelle Matthews said yesterday: "The doctors were hoping she would somehow survive so they could give her the bone marrow but she became very ill on Tuesday morning.
"They took her down to intensive care at 8am on Tuesday but she was just too ill to go on. It came down to a matter of hours at the end but there was nothing they could do to save her.
"Her 13-year-old brother Stuart was also tested for his bone marrow but we thought Amanda's bone marrow would be a good match because there is only about 18 months between the girls - but we never got the chance to find out."
Kimberley, an animal-care student and Liverpool fan, was diagnosed in November. Mrs Matthews added: "We knew a few weeks ago things may not work out. She fought so bravely."
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