Weymouth mum May Brown has died in hospital, her family have confirmed.

The 23-year-old fought a brave campaign after being diagnosed with leukaemia in July 2015. The Home Office inititially denied her sister Martha, entry to the UK to donate her bone marrow.

But after her story was reported in the Dorset Echo, and with support from blood cancer charity ACLT, the decision was overturned and May had her transplant in January.

Sadly, May was told last week that doctors could not do any more for her, and she died on Friday with her husband and loved ones by her side, at King’s College Hospital, London.

She was mum to three-year-old Selina and wife to ex-soldier Mike.

Mike said: “May will forever be remembered in our hearts. She was a strong, beautiful, supportive, wonderful wife and mother; Selina and I will truly miss her.

May was incredibly grateful to the support given to her from ACLT, and I echo those words on behalf of me and our daughter Selina.

May will forever remain in our hearts.”

Beverley De-Gale said: “On Friday, July 14, May Brown passed away surrounded by her husband Mike and her loved ones. In the 18 months, I’ve known her, I can say May was a remarkable woman who fought hard to beat this terrible illness.

"Every member of the ACLT team is extremely saddened by her passing.  Our thoughts are with her husband Mike, three-year-old daughter Selina and May’s sister Martha.”

Through May’s campaign, many thousands were added to the stem cell register in the UK and Nigeria, with the additional support shown by May’s local MP Richard Drax and Labour MP Dawn Butler.

May’s transplant was initially delayed as she became unwell with a virus and required further chemotherapy treatment before the transplant could take place.

In January, this year the transplant went ahead and May received her sister’s donated stem cells.  Martha returned to Nigeria April this year, having spent time post the transplant to support her sister back to health. May was declared to be free of the illness, however, one week after her sister left to go back to Nigeria (April) this year, May relapsed.