A MUM has spoken of her agony after her 10-year-old daughter died for six minutes before being resuscitated.

What appeared to be an innocent headache led to Laila-Rose Stanhope suffering a bleed on the brain, before seizures, a heart attack and going into a coma.

Despite the best efforts of Great Ormand Street Hospital doctors and nurses, the Cherry Tree Primary School pupil’s heart stopped beating for six minutes.

Laila-Rose was resuscitated, but Charley-Rose Stanhope admits she begged doctors to ‘let her go’ when her daughter went into a coma.

Charley-Rose, 28, said: “She was in a coma and had a monitor on her.

“I said to let her go. I didn’t want her on a machine or in pain.

“I said it should be my choice as to whether they turn the machines off or not, but they said that as long as her heart was beating, they had to keep working to save her.

“She then went into a cardiac arrest and was out for six minutes. They pumped her for six minutes and then her heart started beating again.

“When her heart stopped beating after the cardiac arrest, I screamed.”

And although Laila-Rose is now in a stable condition at Great Ormond Street Hospital, Charley-Rose concedes her daughter will not be able to return to their home - in Clay Hill Road, Basildon - for some time.

“She will be in hospital for a long, long time,” she added.

“Laila will stay at Great Ormond Street Hospital for now, before being transferred to a local hospital.

“She will then go to the Tadworth Rehabilitation Centre, where she will spend any amount of time from six months to 10 years.

“The bleed itself has stopped, but because the bleed is still there the doctors cannot tell if she has brain damage.”

A fundraising page has been set up. To donate, visit justgiving.com and search ‘Pray for Laila’.