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The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 weeks pregnant and a miscarriage was “in progress,” doctors noted in hospital records.

Within two hours of her arrival on Sept. 3, an ultrasound confirmed “bulging membranes in the vagina with the fetal head in the open cervix,” dilated at 8.9 cm, and that she had low amniotic fluid.

Isiekwe, who had surgery for a dilated aorta at the end of 2022, was named in Steve Borthwick’s 36-man squad this week for the autumn internationals.

Miss Ahmed was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy at the age of 15.

The official cause of death was "dilated cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure".