A ‘fit and healthy’ 14-year-old ballet dancer died suddenly just days after telling her parents she had a headache.
Valentina Sanna, from Crosby, Merseyside, was described as “extremely kind and extremely beautiful” by her devastated father Alberto.
The teenager died on New year’s Day after she contracted a rare form of meningitis while seeing family in Sardinia, Italy.
She told her parents told her parents headache on Boxing Day and displayed symptoms similar with the flu, reports the Liverpool Echo .
The dancer trained six days a week and was even earned a place at the Royal Ballet School in London.
She died on January 1 after fighting the illness in hospital for three days.
Father Dr Sanna, 48, said he, his wife and two other daughters are devastated.
