A mom in England is mourning after the unexpected death of her young daughter. The little girl was hospitalized due to complications from her asthma. Although the mom said that her daughter seemed to be getting better, everything suddenly changed. Before she knew what was happening, the girl was being placed in a medically induced coma. Within days, her little girl was dead, and the mom still doesn’t know exactly what happened to cause her daughter’s death.
Tasmine Nichols, who lives in Plymouth, England, spoke with Plymouth Live about the death of her 7-year-old daughter, Bonnie Haydon. Nichols explained that Bonnie had been “in and out” of the hospital since July. On August 22, 2025, 12 days after her second trip to the hospital, she was admitted and never came home.
Bonnie was diagnosed with asthma at a young age, but she “had been doing fine over the years,” her mother said. She regularly used an inhaler and took medication, but this year, the young girl seemed to be having more trouble with the illness. Still, she was “full of energy” and generally a happy little kid.
“On August 25 she was running around the hospital playing, dancing and singing everything a child would do. But the next day she was placed into an induced coma in the early hours,” Nichols explained.
The mom went on to say that she was initially told her daughter would be sedated “so she can get a little bit of rest,” she told Plymouth Live. But when the mom returned, she was “then told she had to be placed into a coma which I never got an answer as to why.” Sadly, little Bonnie never woke up from the coma.
On August 27, Bonnie was rushed to a different hospital and was seemingly doing well until later that morning. She was given a CT scan, and Nichols was told Bonnie had no brain activity. “On August 28, she was taken for an MRI to see if there was any brain activity at all. I then had to find out that my baby girl had absolutely no brain activity at all,” she said.
Unlike the previous hospital, Nichols said she was kept in the loop the entire time. But sadly, it didn’t matter. In the “early hours” of August 29, Bonnie died in her mother’s arms.
“The death of a child is always heartbreaking, our thoughts and condolences are with Bonnie’s family at this incredibly difficult time,” a spokesperson for University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, which manages Derriford Hospital, where Bonnie was first seen, shared in a statement to People.
“Following the death of a child, a number of things will take place, for example, a child death review and an inquest,” the statement continued, explaining that during an active investigation, they can’t answer questions.
A family friend has set up a GoFundMe account to help Nichols and her family with Bonnie’s funeral costs. “Bonnie was one of a kind. Her beautiful little soul made her impossible not to love,” the fundraiser reads. “She lit up every single room she walked into and left everyone smiling.”
The page description continued, “Bonnie deserves the most beautiful and special send off and we want to help take that stress away so her family can focus on saying goodbye. Every single penny will go towards giving Bonnie the most stunning and special day, one that shows just how loved she was and always will be. She will forever be 7, forever loved, and forever missed.”
