Baby crash victim gets £800,000

The family of a baby left with horrific injuries in a crash caused by a millionaire's son has received £800,000 in compensation.

Cerys Edwards was 11 months old when Antonio Singh Boparan's Range Rover collided with the vehicle she was in, leaving her brain damaged and reliant on a ventilator.

Cerys, now aged two, is unable to breathe without a ventilator and will never be able to walk or talk again.

She needs 24-hour care and is currently living in a rehabilitation centre in Surrey, more than 100 miles away from the family home in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham.

Last month Boparan, 21, was jailed for 21 months for dangerous driving at Birmingham Crown Court.

At the High Court in Birmingham, an interim payment order of £800,000 was agreed to be paid by insurers for Boparan.

The money will be used to pay for the purchase of a new house for the Edwards family, which will be specially adapted to facilitate Cerys's homecoming.

The family's solicitor Richard Langton, said: "She (Cerys) needs this money. Without it she would never be able to come home."

He added that a further application for an interim payment to cover the long-term care of Cerys would be made at a later date.

Boparan, of Shivalika, Roman Lane, Little Aston, a wealthy part of Sutton Coldfield, was 19 when he drove his mother's high performance Range Rover at about 70mph along a 30mph road and lost control while overtaking, in November 2006.

The family had previously hit out at Boparan's insurers, who had initially refused to pay the amount sought for compensation.

Mr Langton said that because Cerys's life expectancy is impossible to predict "the insurers argued that they may be paying out too much should she die in the near future after they have paid the full interim payment of £1 million, which is what we had sought".

As well as his jail sentence, Boparan, the son of food suppliers Ranjit and Baljinder Boparan, was banned from driving for five years and will have to take an extended driving test to get his licence back.

He was also ordered to pay the prosecution costs by selling his only asset, his Audi car.

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