A mother who died at St George’s Hospital after being shot by her ex-partner has saved six lives with her organs.

Julie Harrison, 40, was air-lifted to the hospital after she and her daughter, Maisie, were attacked in Alton, Hampshire, on December 29, last year.

After her death, her father, Reginald Harrison, 74, agreed to let staff donate her organs to help save other patients’ lives.

Speaking to reporters last week, Mr Harrison said he hoped it was “one positive thing” to come out of the tragedy.

He told the Telegraph: “About two weeks after Julie died I had a letter from St George’s hospital in London, which is the hospital she was taken to, asking if we would like to donate her organs.

“I know five or six people benefited at the time but there could be a lot more since.

"It is one positive thing to come out of this that although she lost her life she will have saved others.

"She was in the nursing profession so we think this is something she would have felt strongly about.”

Miss Harrison, a nurse, was killed by a single shot to the head when her ex-partner, Andy Copland, dragged her into his home and attacked her with a 9mm handgun.

An inquest heard last week how Copland then shot Maisie before turning gun on himself and committing suicide.

Miss Harrison was still alive when officers found her but later died in hospital.

The inquest heard Miss Harrison had left Copland on November 5 when the painter and decorator was at work.

North Hampshire coroner Andrew Bradley recorded Maisie and Miss Harrison were unlawfully killed and that Copland took his own life.