An eight-year-old girl who was scalded by a cup of spilt tea on a Ryanair flight as she flew back to the UK with her family has been awarded damages.
Her father claimed “the nightmare” incident happened as a member of the cabin crew failed to properly secure the cup’s lid which left the child screaming out in pain when it spilt onto her legs and stomach as she sat in her seat.
Ryanair denied liability and insisted the child was “the author of her own misfortune” but after a successful holiday injury claim brought by Hudgell Solicitors’ travel litigation team a court agreed the child should be awarded a flight injury compensation award of £3,500.
Travel litigation executive Anne Thomson said, “This case centred on whether the lid of the cup had been properly secured by the cabin crew, and the grandmother was absolutely sure it had not been.
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