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The organs of one caring schoolgirl were transplanted into a record eight people, it can be revealed.

Jemima Layzell’s brave decision helped change the lives of five children and three adults.

She died, aged 13, of a brain aneurysm in 2012 but her amazing story has just been acknowledged by NHS Blood and Transplant officials to mark Organ Donation Week.

Mum Sophy, 43, said: “We knew Jemima was willing to be a donor after a conversation about the death of someone we knew in a crash.

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“Everyone wants their child to be unique, so this makes us proud. She would be proud of her legacy.”

Sophy, dad Harvey and sister Amelia, now 17, were distraught when Jemima collapsed at home in Horton, Somerset, and died four days later in hospital.

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But the girl’s heart, small bowel and pancreas were transplanted into three people. Two people received her kidneys, while her liver was shared by a further two people. Her lungs went to one patient.

Sophy added: “We found the decision to donate Jemima’s organs hard but we both felt it was right.”

She is the only person whose organs have gone to eight people, with the average per donor in the UK being 2.6.

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Anthony Clarkson, of NHS Blood and Transplant, said: “Jemima’s story shows the difference a few words make.”

The Mirror’s Change the Law for Life campaign wants Theresa May to bring in a law meaning people are classed as donors unless they choose to opt out.