Shropshire Woman Sues the MoD
A Shropshire woman's case has been given a boost after more people have come forward. She is suing the ministry of defence as well as the company her father was working with, for an undisclosed six-figure sum after becoming one of the youngest people in the UK to be diagnosed with mesothelioma. She accuses that the disease was caused by asbestos fall-out from a massive blaze at a Ministry of Defence site in 1983.
Reports say that the Telford mother is claiming tens of thousands of pounds in damages from the MoD and Rubery Owen, after she was diagnosed with mesothelioma. She is in her early 30s and does not want to be identified.
She claims her terminal illness was caused by the asbestos fallout from a huge blaze where asbestos in the roof of the burning building was scattered over more than 15 sq miles of east Shropshire, at Central Ordnance Depot Donnington on June 24, 1983.
Currently she is taking treatments in hospital however, doctors have revealed her she has just weeks or months to live.
"I remember playing in the garden at my Leegomery home as the asbestos fell like snow ! I was just seven when the blaze ripped through the military base," the woman said.
Helen Childs, the solicitor representing the woman, said a meeting would be held in Telford on April 16 and 17 for people to come forward who lived in the area in 1983.
"Many people may be unaware they have got symptoms of the fatal illness," she said.
Mesothelioma is a benign (noncancerous) or malignant (cancerous) tumor affecting the lining of the chest or abdomen. Usually it's found in those exposed to asbestos, in the form of a malignant tumor in the mesothelium of the lungs and or abdomen. Symptoms of this incurable disease are persistent coughing or coughing of blood, chest or abdomen pain, fatigue, and weight loss.
