He had just one last wish before at the age of 16 his life was cut short. Lying in his hospital bed, having made a daisy-chain ring, Omar Al Shaikh asked his girlfriend Amie to be his wife. Hours earlier, doctors at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital had uttered the prognosis Omar and his family had dreaded. There was nothing more they could do for him, his body having been ravaged by leukaemia, and he had just days to live. On Monday, Omar passed away in hospital, a married man. Dressed in his hospital dressing gown, the teenager, and his bride tied the knot surrounded by friends, family and hospital staff just days earlier.Omar Al Shaikh, 16, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemiaIn March doctors said he had just three months to find a stem cell donorBut, teenager was too ill to have the transplant and was given days to liveHe immediately proposed to his girlfriend Amie, also 16, and they married on Friday, just three days before Omar lost his battle with cancer on Monday
'They were in school together and when _ was first sick and diagnosed in June last year she was a good friend and always visited.