'It's so easy to give someone a second chance in their life'

Pilot’s stem cell donation could help save stranger in Australia

- Sentinel Reporter

A DAD-of-two has given a second chance of life to a stranger on the other side of the globe.

Matt Latham, from Congleton, has taken the extraordinary and potentially lifesaving step to donate his stem cells.

The 39-year-old pilot, who is dad to five-year-old Charlie and 18-month-old Ivy, joined the stem cell donor register around four years ago after hearing that a colleague’s friend was searching for a donation.

However, it was a big surprise when he received a call from blood cancer charity DKMS earlier this year.

They told him he had been identified as the stem cell match for a stranger - a seriously-ill patient who was in desperate need of a stem cell transplant to give them a second chance at life.