Girl trapped in the body of a 100-year old dies at 17

A teenager suffering a rare genetic condition that gave her the body of a 100-year-old has died aged 17.
Hayley Okines suffered from the rare disease progeria which ages the body at eight times the normal rate.It involves a mutant protein called progerin that accelerates physical ageing.


There are around 74 known cases of the disease around the world and usually,Progeria patients normally die from heart attacks or strokes at an average age of 13.But Hayley defied the odds to live four more years and even published an autobiography about living with the disease.
Last night her mother Kerry posted on Facebook:
 'My baby girl has gone somewhere better. She took her last breath in my arms at 9.39pm x.'
Her story was catapulted into the limelight after she starred in documentaries called The Girl who is Older than Her Mother and World's Oldest Teenager: Extraordinary People.