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<\/div>A mother in desperate need of a transplant fears the former partner who killed her teenage son has now stolen her only chance of survival.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Tania Morris, 49, was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma weeks after burying her only child, Nathan Bates.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old was bludgeoned to death with a hammer as he slept last year by his mother\u2019s ex-partner Robert Goodwin, who then took his own life.<\/p>\n
Miss Morris has been battling the disease for a year, but doctors have now told her that her last hope is a stem cell transplant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Her rare tissue type means there is currently no one on the worldwide register who is a suitable match \u2013 and it seems her only hope of finding a donor would have been her beloved son.<\/p>\n
Miss Morris\u2019s mother Viv, 69, and father Robert, 70, are not suitable as they are too old and unwell, while her brother Darren was not a match. Her younger brother Adam died of a heart attack four years ago at the age of 41. Miss Morris and her family are making a plea for volunteers to sign up to the donor register, run by blood cancer charity The Anthony Nolan Trust.<\/p>\n
Miss Morris said: \u2018It\u2019s heartbreaking. The doctors just keep saying we need a fit and healthy 19-year-old and that breaks my heart as that\u2019s how old Nathan was when he was murdered. My younger brother could have been a match but he died of a heart attack.<\/p>\n
\u2018My other brother Darren was devastated when he was tested and wasn\u2019t a match. He wanted so much to help me. Dad\u2019s only a half match. He\u2019s too poorly himself to go ahead but… he could be a last resort.<\/p>\n
\u2018They\u2019re worried it would kill both me and him. We are just hoping someone comes forward. It\u2019s my only chance of beating this.\u2019<\/p>\n
Goodwin was arrested and charged with assault after attacking Miss Morris, a pottery worker, at her home in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, in August last year.<\/p>\n
But he was twice granted bail despite having breached conditions not to contact her.<\/p>\n
Two months later \u2013 on the day he was due to appear in court to face the assault charge \u2013 he used a key to enter Miss Morris\u2019s house and bludgeon Nathan to death.<\/p>\n
He then killed himself in nearby allotments. Weeks later Miss Morris noticed her own health declining and, since her diagnosis in January this year, she has endured endless rounds of chemotherapy.<\/p>\n
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She said of her former partner: \u2018He\u2019s just a coward for what he did to Nathan.<\/p>\n
\u2018He wouldn\u2019t accept any responsibility for what he did. He wanted me to drop the charges, but I refused because I was scared he would do it to someone else.<\/p>\n
\u2018He couldn\u2019t cope with the thought of going to prison so he killed Nathan, killed himself and if I don\u2019t find a donor, he may yet kill me.\u2019<\/p>\n
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She added: \u2018I haven\u2019t properly grieved for Nathan because of the cancer. I can\u2019t sleep any more. If I\u2019m not thinking about the cancer, my thoughts turn to Nathan.\u2019 Appealing for volunteers to join the donor register, she added: \u2018It\u2019s just a simple test you do in your home and send off. I\u2019m not doing this just for me, but for everyone else who needs a donor. You never know, you could save someone\u2019s life.\u2019<\/p>\n
Her mother Viv said: \u2018After what we\u2019ve been through we just want to find a match, otherwise this might be her last Christmas. We are desperate to find someone.\u2019<\/p>\n
Daily Mail
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