Heartbroken widow refused IVF treatment using dead husband’s sperm

Donna Turner is distraught after she was refused IVF treatment with dead husband's sperm [INS Picture Desk/INS News Agency]

Nursery nurse Donna Turner, 32, said she is distraught because she won't be able to fulfil her late husband Paul's dying wish.

Married for eight months and desperate for children, surgeons even reversed Mr Turner's vasectomy as he lay dying from bowel cancer, so that the sperm could be harvested and frozen.

The heartbroken new bride said that NHS staff had turned her down for IVF treatment because, as a widow, she is now officially single.

"I wanted his child more than anything. Now my goal is to have this baby which I promised him on his death bed," said Mrs Turner.

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

"Then the Clinical Commissioning Group refused to fund me. They said I couldn't have the IVF because they class me as single and because he has got a son from a previous relationship years ago."

She insisted: "I'm not single, I'm widowed."

After meeting on New Year's Day in 2010, Mr Turner popped the question at a New Year's Eve party before the couple married in April 2012.

Just five months later, the Arsenal fan was diagnosed with bowel cancer. He lost his eight-month battle, despite being told he could have more than 18 months to live, in January 2013.

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Heartbroken widow refused IVF treatment using dead husband's sperm