'My brother was told he had ear infection - weeks later he was dead'

Tyler Morton was just 21 when he died08:13, 16 Jul 2026A 21-year-old man died just weeks after being "told he had an ear infection", his sister said.‌Tyler Morton, an artist from Bedford, first complained of an earache in January before the left side of his face suddenly went numb and he struggled to walk. After a trip to the hospital, he was diagnosed with an ear infection and sent home with antibiotics, according to his sister Ella.‌The antibiotics made no difference and his condition quickly deteriorated. Tyler started being sick and lost function on the entire left side of his body.‌A CT scan revealed a lesion on his brain and following a biopsy at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, he was diagnosed with grade 4 glioblastoma. He died on March 25, just weeks after his symptoms first a