AN unlucky kidney patient who found his fiancee was a perfect match to donate a life-changing organ is looking for a new donor - after they split up.

Jay Charles, 40, beat odds of 100,000 to one to discover that his partner Mel Greenall, 45, was a match and he was due to undergo an operation in October.

But now devastated Jay, who has suffered two failed transplants, will have to start searching again for a third donor after splitting with Mel who is also known as Kitty.

The ex-teacher has blamed a lack of support from doctors as the main contributing factor to the end of their five-year romance.

He has told how the pair were in desperate need of counselling and often “danced around” speaking about the pending op which created fear and anxiety.

But he claims the transplant coordination team simply “backed off” once Mel discovered she was a match.

Jay said: “We simply didn’t see or hear from anyone. I couldn’t believe it.

“As a couple struggling through renal failure together we desperately needed to speak to someone. Mel was donating a major organ to me, it’s a big deal.

“I feel as though I’ve lost everything.”

He added: “Mel had told me she’d still donate but with so much ill feeling and resentment surrounding our breakup I just felt it wouldn’t be right to go ahead.”

Mel has told how she no longer recognised Jay as the man she once loved after he became lost in his illness and they often argued.

Jay, of Whitby, was diagnosed with a rare blood condition aged 11. He fell ill in October after his second kidney transplant began to fail. He spends three days a week travelling to a dialysis unit in Middlesbrough.