Ben and Lisa Wallace were on the point of bringing five-month-old Angus back to Guernsey, but a final check found his breathing wasn’t quite right and he died less than a month later. (0836464)

A COUPLE today recalled the harrowing, unexpected death of their five-month-old son.

Ben Wallace, 31, a farmer, and his wife, Lisa, 33, lost their baby boy at the beginning of July when he caught pneumonia following open-heart surgery.

Today Mr Wallace will jump out of a plane at 10,000ft hoping to raise £1,000 for the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit in Southampton.

‘His death was so unexpected,’ said Mrs Wallace.

The couple, who also have a two-year-old son, Owen, knew nothing about Angus’s heart condition until he was eight weeks old.

‘At six weeks, he started showing respiratory problems but nothing major. He was always so good, I just thought we had a fantastic little baby,’ said Mrs Wallace.

Concerned, she took him to a paediatrician. Twenty-four hours later a medical flight was taking them to hospital in Southampton.

‘He never came home,’ said Mrs Wallace.

Angus was diagnosed with a heart murmur and his organs, while all there, had grown in the wrong places.