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Personal injury solicitors could help mother make claim

A woman who claims that she contracted an asbestos-related disease through hugging her father after he returned home from work has made a compensation claim against the Ministry of Defence for £75,000.

Debbie Brewer, 47, of Plymouth contacted a personal injury solicitor after she was diagnosed with mesothelioma in November 2006.

Mrs Brewer believes that she developed the lung cancer through breathing in asbestos fibres from her father's work overalls after he returned home from spending the day at the MoD's Devonport Dockyard in 1966.

Following her father's death, an inquest revealed that the former MoD worker had died from an asbestos-related lung cancer, which may have been caused by exposure to the poisonous material during his time at the dockyards.

The mother of three said that she feels a lot of anger about developing the industrial disease but does not blame her father.

"None of this is his fault.

"My future has been taken away, I have got three children and I expect to be there for them, and I don't know if I am going to be. That's very hard to deal with."

A spokesperson for the MoD commented on the personal injury compensation claim and said, "Once a claim has been made we have a very good record in paying compensation quickly where we have a liability."

With the help of her personal injury solicitor, and if the MoD is proved to be liable, Mrs Brewer could be awarded up to £75,000 in compensation for her mesothelioma claim.