A family has been left devastated after discovering their teenage daughter needs a heart transplant - ten years after losing a baby boy with a heart defect.

Vicky Hutchinson had her world turned upside down after she caught a cold - and then discovered she needs a life-saving heart transplant.

Now their other two daughters - Angela, 19, and Helen, 14 - face the possibility of undergoing tests to find out if they have a hereditary heart condition which took the life of their only son, Adrian, at ten months.

Vicky, 17, of Girlington, Bradford, who loves horse riding and dancing, seemed perfectly healthy until she developed a cold on Boxing Day.

Three months later, simply walking up and down stairs is enough to leave her fighting for breath.

Doctors at Bradford Royal Infirmary diagnosed her as having an enlarged heart in February and since then she has spent six weeks in hospital.

Her mum, Janet Hutchinson, 36, who runs The Girlington pub in Thornton Road, Bradford, even feared her daughter might have been taking drugs because her personality change was so dramatic.

Mrs Hutchinson said: "She had always been the life and soul of the party and then she became tired and withdrawn. At first we thought she might have been taking drugs but this wasn't the case."

Mrs Hutchinson and her husband Gary, 40, who is caring for Vicky full-time, are trying to come to terms with the fact that a second child of theirs has a life-threatening heart defect.

Mrs Hutchinson added: "When we had Adrian it was like a miracle had happened.

"We lived in the hospital for months and I was crying all the time when he died. When we heard about Vicky I lost interest in the pub straightaway. I couldn't go through 17 years of looking after her and then have this happen."

And Mr Hutchinson said: "We were totally gutted when Adrian died. It's unbelievable this has happened again.

The family has been cheered by the support of pub regulars, ten of whom are holding a sponsored head shave at the pub at 2pm next Saturday in aid of Ward 22 at BRI where Vicky was treated.

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