'Incredibly beautiful' teenager, 19, went on night out and never came home after falling ill

A 'unique and beautiful' teenager's night out tragically ended in her never returning home. Halle O'Brien, 19, from Litherland, was studying for a first class degree at Edge Hill University in Ormskirk, with aspirations of becoming a teacher.

Her family spoke of her as "incredibly beautiful, sweet and intelligent". But in January 2019, while enjoying a night out with her fiancé Eddie Rooney, Halle became ill.

Halle had contracted group A streptococcal septicaemia, a severe and often fatal blood infection. After she became unwell, Halle's mother, Heather O'Brien, got a phone call from her daughter’s number – except, it wasn't Halle on the line, it was a paramedic instructing her to get to the hospital immediately.

Heather recounted the harrowing memory: "I had a call from Halle's phone, but it was the paramedic to tell me to get to the hospital as quickly as I could. By the time we arrived Halle was so poorly and was being worked on by doctors giving her CPR.

"We went up to the intensive care unit and Halle was rigged up to all sorts of machines."

Despite being vaccinated against meningitis, the blood infection led Halle to develop the condition. She suffered two heart attacks and never regained consciousness at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, reports the Liverpool Echo.

Following an unimaginable battle, Halle died on January 27, 2019, after her life-support machine was turned off.

Heather recounted the harrowing experience: "For 12 hours we sat around the bed with her and we had to make the decision to turn the machines off as she wasn't responding to anything that the hospital tried. We have all been left heartbroken and life will never be the same for us.

"We try to carry her with us on our journey, trying to do