A terminally-ill teenager won a legal right to die at home after health bosses tried to force her to have a heart transplant against her wishes, her family revealed.
Child protection officers used a court order to try to take Hannah Jones, 13, from her family and make her have surgery. She had been warned that the transplant itself might result in death.
But health chiefs have now abandoned the High Court proceedings after speaking to the former leukaemia sufferer and her family and she will now spend her remaining time at home.
Hannah, from Marden near Hereford, told the Mirror: "They explained everything to me but I didn't want to go through any more operations. I'd had enough of hospitals and wanted to come home."
The teenager has a hole in her heart - meaning it can only pump a fraction of its normal capacity. The damage was caused by treatment for a rare form of leukaemia diagnosed when she was five.
Hannah had been previously warned that she had only six months to live and that the only potential long term solution was a heart transplant.
Her father Andrew, 43, told how he received a phone call one Friday night warning him that his daughter would be removed from the family unless they agreed to her having the transplant. But he persuaded the officials to speak to Hannah before taking any action, he said.
Mr Jones, who is an auditor, told the Mirror: "Hannah must have done a good job of convincing them because after consulting lawyers they said on Monday no further action would be taken. My wife and I agreed that whatever Hannah wanted to we would support her. Hannah knows she can change her mind at any time and go on the waiting list for a transplant."
Mr Jones said the family believed a locum GP raised concerns over Hannah with the child protection team. They are hoping she will live to see Christmas. more
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