Six year old gets payment she deserves

In 2006 a driver going 70mph on a 30mph road going the wrong side of the road in his parent's Range Rover hit a car with a baby in the front seat. The driver was Antonio Boparan Singh. The girl, Cerys Edwards, was paralysed and given irreprable brain damage. The sentence for dangerous driving at the time was not enough and the driver was given a sentence of 21 months but was let out on 6 months. The family organised a petition of 30,000 to raise the penalty as even the judge agreed it wasn't enough. The penalty was then raised to 5 years in prison which still isn't enough but is on the right track.

Singh's insurers will pay Cerys a lump sum of £5m, plus £450,000 a year for the rest of her life, which her lawyer estimates could be worth between £10-£15m.

"She has a 24-hour package of carers and nurses looking after her because she's paralysed and brain damaged, she can't move and is ventilator dependent so it's not a lottery winning, it's money that's needed for her care.
Today the judge made the very telling point that no amount of money can actually turn back the clock or make a difference to Cerys' injuries but at least it gives the parents security for the future. They know whatever happens there'll be enough funds to pay for Cerys' care." quoted the family's solicitor Richard Langton.

The six year old will never walk and will never be able to dress herself. She will never grow up the same as those the same age as herself.Cerys Edwards(6)