McDonald & Dodds star Jason Watkins previously shared his horror after finding his two-year-old daughter Maude dead in her cot.
Maude died from sepsis on New Year’s Day in 2011, after developing a chest infection.
Little Maude was two years old when she died (Credit: ITV)
Maude’s illness
Jason and his wife Clara Francis – also parents to Bessie and Gilbert – had taken Maude to A&E after medication given by her GP failed to work. The parents were told she had a bad cold and croup. They were then discharged.
However, Maude died later that night at home. And her parents only discovered that she’d had sepsis after her death.
Sepsis is a life-threatening reaction to an infection that occurs when the immune system overreacts and starts to damage the body’s own tissues and organs.
Jason Watkins discovered his daughter dead in her cot and tried to revive her (Credit: ITV)
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