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Shop alarm trauma causes woman to consult personal injury solicitors

A former hotel manager has consulted personal injury solicitors because a metal plate in her leg sets off shop alarms.

Edith O'Brien is making a compensation claim for £90,000 after she shattered her ankle when falling over a tree root in a dark hotel car park in May 2001. The incident occurred as the 55-year-old was returning home after a shift at the Murraypark Hotel in Crieff, Scotland.

She has been left unable to work as a result of the ankle injury and claims she is now regularly left traumatised when metal plates in her leg alert security guards in stores.

"I set off alarms in Tesco because I've got so much metalwork in there," she said.

Making her compensation claim at Perth Sheriff Court, Mrs O'Brien blames the Crieff Hydro Hotel group for failing to adequately light the car park through which she had to walk to reach her vehicle. She fell on a protruding tree root and broke two bones in her right ankle, requiring her to be fitted with a plate to keep the injured bones in place.

Mrs O'Brien explained how she was initially reluctant to begin legal action, but contacted personal injury solicitors when she became disappointed with the hotel group's response to her accident.

She said, "They sent me a letter which said that anyone used to going down to the car park should have been used to the hazards in it."