Widow’s warning after Premier League scout husband suddenly dies

A heartbroken widow has issued a informing aft her young Premier League scout hubby died of meningitis aft doctors dismissed his symptoms.

Dad-of-two Reece Darcheville died successful 2017 aft medics failed to recognise the seriousness of his information and sent him location without a encephalon scan.

The 31-year-old from Hackney, East London, was re-admitted to infirmary conscionable 4 days aboriginal and underwent exigency surgery, but suffered terrible encephalon harm and died 9 days later.

Dissatisfied with his care, Mr Darcheville’s widow and puerility sweetheart, Shenna, instructed lawyers to analyse her husband’s care.

The household person present been awarded an undisclosed colony by Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, who admitted liability and giving ‘suboptimal’ attraction to Mr Darcheville.

Mrs Darcheville says she feels ‘let down’ by doctors who missed chances to perchance prevention her husband’s life.

She present hopes to rise consciousness of the aboriginal signs of meningitis – a uncommon but ‘well-known’ complication of untreated sinusitis – and combat for improvements successful attraction successful the anticipation akin tragic deaths tin beryllium avoided successful the future.

‘Even aft each these years, it’s astir intolerable to effort and statesman to picture the profound effect that losing Reece has had connected our lives,’ mother-of-two Mrs Darcheville said.

‘In each the clip I knew Reece I had ne'er seen him sick, truthful erstwhile helium started with his symptoms I knew it was wholly retired of character. He tried to transportation connected and spell to enactment but helium was excessively poorly. He adjacent had to miss shot grooming which helium ne'er did. It’s hard not to deliberation that erstwhile helium needed assistance the astir helium was fto down.’

In mid-September 2017, Mr Darcheville began vomiting and complaining of a headache.

After processing symptom and unit astir his eyes and struggling to sleep, a GP prescribed antibiotics connected September 21, believing him to beryllium suffering from sinus corruption sinusitis.

Four days aboriginal helium attended Homerton Hospital successful Hackney, wherever helium was examined.

But the younker shot manager and PE Teacher, who scouted for Premier League clubs including Crystal Palace and Tottenham Hotspur, was sent location to decorativeness his people of antibiotics without having a encephalon scan.

Mr Darcheville’s symptoms continued to persist, and connected September 28 helium and his woman – earnestly disquieted astir his symptoms – attended a further GP appointment.

The GP told them helium was acrophobic that the severity of his symptoms was antithetic for sinusitis.

But Mr Darcheville, who co-founded Islington’s AC United younker shot team, was prescribed antithetic antibiotics and anti-sickness tablets and sent location again, aft being told he’d request a encephalon scan if his information didn’t improve.

His woman called an ambulance the pursuing greeting aft helium became incoherent and confused, and helium was rushed to Homerton Hospital earlier being transferred to intensive attraction astatine different hospital.

Mr Darcheville was past placed connected a ventilator and transferred for country aboriginal that day.

Following surgery, a CT scan showed important swelling and an MRI connected October 2 showed encephalon harm helium was precise improbable to retrieve from.

Mr Darcheville, who is survived by sons Shay, 16, and Rayne, 13, died six days later, connected October 8.

A superior incidental probe study by Homerton Hospital Trust aboriginal judged determination was a imaginable ‘missed opportunity’ to admit the severity of his symptoms and see further probe erstwhile helium archetypal attended infirmary connected September 25.

It admitted that Mr Darcheville’s meningitis and pus connected the encephalon weren’t recognised until ‘late successful the people of the illness’.

The study concluded that he’d received ‘suboptimal care’ and that antithetic absorption of his information could person saved his life.

Emma-Jayne Rudland, a specializer aesculapian negligence lawyer astatine Irwin Mitchell representing Mr Darcheville’s family, echoed their plea for lessons to beryllium learned from the tragic and avoidable death.

‘Reece’s household stay devastated by his decease and the circumstances surrounding it,’ she said. ‘We judge the Hospital Trust failed to recognise the value of Reece’s symptoms during his archetypal visit.

‘If it had, past Reece would person been referred for a encephalon scan which would person showed a build-up of pus and helium would person received the attraction helium required to marque a afloat recovery.

‘Instead, the attraction failings that Reece experienced ended successful the astir devastating mode and volition proceed to impact his household for the remainder of their lives. While meningitis is simply a uncommon complication of sinusitis, it’s a well-known complication.

‘Therefore, it’s captious that lessons are learned from this lawsuit to amended diligent safety. Early detection and attraction is cardinal to beating meningitis.’

Mrs Darcheville described her precocious hubby arsenic an ‘amazing dad’ and a ‘mentor for many’.

‘I met Reece connected my 16th day and we deed it disconnected consecutive away,’ she said. ‘I knew arsenic soon arsenic I met him that helium was a kind, loving and generous person.

‘To spot him endure successful those last weeks was awful. During the clip that Reece was successful the infirmary the connection meningitis was ne'er mentioned, I was told that the sinus corruption had dispersed to his encephalon and owed to the swelling helium was successful captious information and whitethorn not aftermath up from the coma.

‘The archetypal clip I heard thing astir meningitis was erstwhile I saw it arsenic the origin of decease connected his decease certificate. Reece was an astonishing dada and mentor for galore and thing was ever excessively overmuch occupation for him.

‘He went retired of his mode to effort and assistance others and supply them with the champion accidental successful life. Following Reece’s decease we donated his organs truthful helium could proceed to supply opportunities for others successful life.

‘He was 1 of the world’s bully guys and didn’t merit what happened to him. ‘All I tin anticipation for present is that I tin assistance rise consciousness of the signs of meningitis and that improvements successful attraction are made to assistance others.”

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