{"id":3181,"date":"2008-05-06T17:32:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T17:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/05\/06\/payout-for-brain-damaged-girl\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T10:54:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T10:54:17","slug":"payout-for-brain-damaged-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/06\/payout-for-brain-damaged-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Payout for brain damaged girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"210\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"235\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/CerysEdwardsDouble232x180.jpg\"\/>A YOUNG girl left brain damaged and paralysed after a crash caused by a millionaires\u2019 son has been awarded an interim payment of \u00a3800,000.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Cerys Edwards suffered horrific injuries after the car she was travelling in with her parents was struck by speeding motorist Antonio Singh Boparan. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He was jailed last month for 21 months after being convicted of dangerous driving. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>During the trial, Birmingham Crown Court was told he sped dangerously down Streetly Lane, Sutton Coldfield when he reached a speed of 70mph before hitting Gareth and Tracey Edwards\u2019 oncoming jeep.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Young Cerys was left paralysed and brain damaged by the crash and has needed 24-hr care ever since. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Her parents Gareth and Tracey Edwards were paid by insurers for Boparan at Birmingham High Court. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The money will help pay for a special house which will meet the requirements for Cerys\u2019 care. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Since the crash she has been looked after at a special Children\u2019s trust in Surrey \u2013 150 miles away from her family. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Edwards have now launched an online petition calling for tougher sentences for dangerous driving.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cerysedwards.com\/\">www.cerysedwards.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Related Articles<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/article.aspx?articleId=850\">Millionaire\u2019s son guilty of dangerous driving<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A YOUNG girl left brain damaged and paralysed after a crash caused by a millionaires\u2019 son has been awarded an interim payment of \u00a3800,000. &#13; Cerys Edwards suffered horrific injuries after the car she was travelling in with her parents was struck by speeding motorist Antonio Singh Boparan. &#13; He was jailed last month for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}