Grandchildren to benefit from grandfather’s injury compensation

A widow is set to spend the injury compensation awarded after her husband’s death on taking his grandchildren to Florida’s Disney World resort in the US.

The Star reported that before Richard Thompson died of an asbestos-related form of cancer in 2007, he promised the youngsters that he would take them to the US attraction.

Now, his widow Brenda has been awarded injury compensation to the tune of £180,000 and is planning to do this.

A coroner said that Mr Thompson’s death was a result of industrial disease, after he was diagnosed with pleural plaques in 1998 and cancer in 2007, which was related to exposure to asbestos.

Mr Thompson was employed at the former ICI plant in Doncaster, where he loaded asbestos lagging onto a van and cut it into smaller sections.

Last month, an inquest also ruled that Cyril Butt died of lung cancer after he was exposed to asbestos while working as an electrical fitter, The Burton Mail reported.

Published by Hannah Carr