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James Murray reveals what helped him cope after his daughter Ella-Jayne's death and says he and wife Sarah Parish 'couldn't breathe' during her second pregnancy


In 2009, James, 49, and his wife Sarah Parish, 56, lost Ella-Jayne to a congenital heart defect when she was eight months old.

Ella-Jayne passed away four months later in her sleep and, after her funeral, James and Sarah went to Vietnam and Cambodia and volunteered to work in orphanages with sick children. James and Sarah have succeeded in raising over £2.5 million for Southampton University Hospital, which the government matched and it paid for a new children's emergency and trauma department. Their experience volunteering turned out to be first step on a new path and in 2014 they set up the Murray Parish Trust, dedicated to advancing paediatric emergency medicine in the south of England.

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