A six-year-old boy has been awarded a multimillion-pound
settlement after complications at birth left him disabled.
Jensen Carter - son of the late ex-Sunderland goalkeeper Tim
Carter - suffers from
cerebral palsy which was caused by his difficult birth at the
University Hospital of North Durham in October 2003.
Fiver years later, the County Durham and Darlington Foundation
Trust admitted liability for the negligent delay in the boy's
birth.
Bosses accepted that the medicine Syntocinon, used in
obstetrics during drawn-out labour, should not have been given
when the baby showed signs of foetal distress.
Mr Justice Roderick Evans at London's High Court awarded the
damages which will ensure Jensen is fully supported for the rest of
his life.