Alcoholic, denied liver transplant, dies at age of 22

A MAN has died aged just 22 after teenage binge-drinking led to alcoholism.

Gary Reinbach, of Dagenham, Essex, died in hospital on Sunday after he was refused a liver transplant because he could not prove he had not drunk alcohol for at least six months.

Yesterday, his mother Madeline Hanshaw, 44, told the Evening Standard: “These rules are really unfair. I’m not saying you should give a transplant to someone who is in and out of hospital all the time and keeps damaging themselves, but just for people like Gary, who made a mistake and never got a second chance.”