Mother whose son was left brain damaged after midwife error awarded £7.1m damages by hospital following 14 year legal …

Clare began legal battle after son born with serious form of cerebral palsy It is believed umbilical cord wrapped around Charlie's shoulders for more than 20minutes before midwives noticed Royal Bournemouth Hospital Trust denied clinical negligence for 12 years Then admitted that brain injury would have been avoided had Mrs Scott been cared for properly during labour

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 09:29 EST, 9 January 2013 | UPDATED: 13:53 EST, 9 January 2013

A teenager who was left brain damaged at birth has been awarded 7.1million damages following a gruelling 14 year fight by his mother against the hospital responsible.

Clare Scott began a long legal battle with NHS bosses after her son Charlie was born with a serious form of cerebral palsy.

It is believed that the umbilical cord wrapped around Charlie's shoulders for more than 20 minutes in the womb before midwives noticed.

Claire with her 14-year-old son Charlie: He suffered brain damage after the umbilical cord became wrapped around his shoulder in the womb

Compensation: Charlie cannot cannot walk, talk or drink without assistance and will need care for the rest of his life

If the problem had been spotted, Mrs Scott could have been given an emergency Caesarean section. As it was Charlie was starved of oxygen and it took 55 minutes before he was able to breath on his own.

He was diagnosed with spastic quadriplegic hemiplegic athetoid cerebral palsy at six-months-old. He cannot walk, talk, sit up, or drink without assistance and will need care for the rest of his life.

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