He claimed that hospital staff had gone to 'enormous' lengths to detect the cause of his son's sudden illness and were 'only left with [the plant] as a possibility'.

It comes as research shows just one change in circumstances - such as sudden illness, family breakdown, bereavement, job loss or retirement - can push households closer to the breadline.

He only owed his life on this occasion to a sudden illness.

While on a skiing vacation, he experienced a sudden illness and went into cardiac arrest after doctors attempted to insert a breathing tube.

Removed due to a sudden illness on the final morning of the trial.