This is the first picture of a six-year-old girl who choked to death on holiday as an ambulance took double the target time of eight minutes to reach her.
Jasmine Lapsley's distraught family revealed their daughter made a wish at a well on the day of the tragedy which 'she never had the chance to see come true.'
The youngster collapsed at a holiday home on the Welsh coast last Tuesday evening where she was staying with relatives.
The Welsh Ambulance Service is now probing why paramedics arrived to treat the girl after 16 minutes in Morfa Nefyn, north Wales.
Her dad Robert said: "She was full of love, life, energy and enthusiasm for her family, friends and her so many interests.
"She was truly a shining light in our lives.
"On the day Jasmine passed away she made a wish at a wishing well whilst on a day out with ourselves and her brothers and she never had the chance to see the wish come true."
Frank Maudsley, former bassist from Liverpool new wave band Flock of Seagulls, said: “She was an angel.
"She would come into my shop and just stand there and smile.
“When it was her birthday I gave her a china tea set from the shop.”
An off-duty ambulance employee and police officer tried desperately to save the schoolgirl until help arrived.
An RAF rescue helicopter, from Prince William's former HQ in Anglesey, flew Jasmine, from Anfield, Liverpool, 20 miles to hospital at Bangor where she later died.
The Welsh Ambulance Service said: "We will be looking into the circumstances to ensure we have a proper understanding of exactly what happened.”
It is the latest controversy for the troubled service after this month's scandal that hundreds of patients in Wales, including a baby who later died, were taken to hospital by police because ambulances were unavailable.
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