A five-year-old girl who died in hospital four days after having her tonsils removed was her family's "magical little princess", an inquest has heard.

Amber Milnes, from St Just in Roseland, Cornwall , underwent the procedure at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro on 5 April 2023 due to sleep apnoea.

An inquest heard Amber's parents believed she would stay in hospital overnight after the operation as she had a rare condition called cyclical vomiting syndrome.

But Amber was discharged home hours after the procedure and started vomiting in the early morning of 6 April. She was admitted back to the hospital that evening.

Image: Amber Milnes. Pic. PA

Cornwall Coroner's Court heard on Wednesday that Amber had a fatal haemorrhage, likely to have been caused by an infection in the p

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