A seven-year-old boy who suffered brain damage due to doctors' failure to give him vitamin K after his birth today won £1.1 million in compensation at the High Court, London.
Jordan Ovenden, of Pole Barn Lane, Frinton, sustained "significant structural brain damage" due to a haemorrhaging six weeks after his birth at Clacton Hospital in 1992.
Vitamin K is given to newborn babies to prevent haemorrhaging. North Essex Health Authority admitted liability.
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