Dear Nicola, Please Help My Brother
Daily Record|June 16, 2021
Teenager pleads for life-changing drug to be free on NHS prescription
Vivienne Aitken
Dear Nicola, Please Help My Brother

A Teenage boy will today hand a letter to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon begging her to help his little brother.

Dean Gray, 13, from Edinburgh, watched in horror as his wee brother Murray had multiple seizures before ending up in a vegetative state.

Murray, eight, had been diagnosed with Doose syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy, in December 2017 and could suffer hundreds of seizures a day.

But after his condition worsened and he was lying unresponsive in hospital, his mum, Karen, travelled to the Netherlands to get him cannabis-based drugs with previously banned tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and smuggled them back into the country.

This story is from the June 16, 2021 edition of Daily Record.

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