Six-year-old Shannon Davies had been chatting to mum Suzanne and stepdad Glyn Gaskell only hours before her death.

The schoolgirl from Scholes had been asking when she could come home from her intensive care bed at Manchester's Booth Hall Hospital, where she was still seriously ill after the accident on June 20.

But then in the middle of the night the parents received a phone call to say that Shannon had suffered two heart attacks and by the time their taxi had brought them to Booth Hall it was already too late.

Glyn said: "We are in pieces. We knew she was still on the critical list and they had pre-warned us that she was not in the clear and there could be setbacks, but we thought she was doing OK. It was a question of the grafts taking. We had been to see her every day and on Sunday she was talking to us and saying she wanted to come home.

"She had also been mithering the nurses watching High School Musical and Dirty Dancing over and over again.
"It was going to be months before the doctors even contemplated her coming out, but we were looking forward to it.

"Then we got a phone call at about 3.45am from the hospital saying she was not so good. We got a taxi straight away, but she had passed away by the time we got there.

"From what they said she had had a couple of cardiac arrests and she was just not able to fight it. Our world has fallen apart."
Glyn described Shannon as a "bubbly person, a Frilly Milly, a real girly girl".

The accident happened on the evening of Friday, June 20, when Shannon was with her grandfather Thomas Spoors at his friend David Barker's home in Walthew Lane, Platt Bridge.

He grandfather decided to set up a barbecue in the backyard. But in the moments it took him to go inside to fetch the food, Shannon got too near to the heat and her nylon dress caught fire.