THE grieving parents of a little girl who choked to death on a grape while on holiday in Morfa Nefyn have set up a charity to support other families who have lost a child.

Six-year-old Jasmine Lapsley died in August 2014 while she was staying at a holiday home at Lon Bodlondeb on the Llyn Peninsula. She died despite being airlifted to hospital by helicopter.

The Welsh Ambulance Service was slammed during the inquest which followed after missing the eight-minute response target for a top-grade emergency, and taking 25 minutes to arrive at the scene. The incident led north west coroner, Nicola Jones, to call for more ambulances in north Wales during the summer months.

Now Jasmine’s parents Kathy and Rob Lapsley, from Anfield, in Liverpool, have set up a new charity, ‘Love, Jasmine’ in honour of their daughter, and to raise awareness of the needs of bereaved families and complement existing support services.

Her devastated mother, Kathy, told the Cambrian News: “We set up the charity straight away as we knew our lives had changed forever, and we had to let Jasmine’s name live on and be known for the beautiful, kind and caring girl she was, and not for the way she died.

“What happened was so shocking, so traumatic and to lose a child is the most horrendous thing that can happen in life. The help that bereaved parents and families need is a lot more than what people could ever imagine."

Read the full story in this week’s north editions of the Cambrian News