Mum told she can’t have IVF treatment – with her DEAD HUSBAND

Nursery nurse Donna Turner has been refused the chance to have her dead husband's baby - because NHS bosses said it would make her a single parent.

Today the distraught new bride told how she had been refused IVF treatment using sperm taken from her husband of only eight months, before he died.

Surgeons had even reversed his vasectomy as he lay dying from bowel cancer, just months after the couple wed, so that the sperm could be harvested and frozen to fulfil the couple's desperate wish to have a baby.

The 32-year-old said that NHS staff had turned her down for IVF treatment because, as a widow, she is now officially single.

Donna married Paul Turner in April 2012, but just eight months later he died after being diagnosed with cancer.

Having got as far as discussing names for their unborn child, Paul's dying wish was for Donna to have it using his frozen sperm. Paul even had a vasectomy reversed to allow the procedure to happen.

However, just months after the 39-year-old's death Donna was denied the 3,500 pounds treatment by her local NHS commissioning group.

Still wearing his wedding ring on a chain around her neck, Donna said: "I wanted his child more than anything.

"Now my goal is to have this baby which I promised him on his death bed.

"For the names it was going to be Paignton-Louise for a girl and Tommy for a boy.

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Mum told she can't have IVF treatment - with her DEAD HUSBAND