Woman awaits injury compensation after losing finger

A woman is waiting to be paid injury compensation after she lost her finger during a visit to a racecourse in Middlesex.

Clare Wiffin, from Tadworth, near Epsom, asked staff at Kempton Park Racecourse where she could find a cash machine, the Staines News reports.

The 37-year-old claims that she was then directed towards a fence, which she climbed up on to look over for the cash point.

Her wedding ring then got caught on one of the metal spikes of the fence and her ring finger was pulled off.

Mrs Wiffin claims that when she went back the following day, the footpath had been closed to members of the public.

"If it had been blocked off at the time I would have never gone down there. My son and stepson both saw it happen and they were obviously traumatised," she told the newspaper.

Earlier this month, Callender (Lancashire) Aeropart Ltd was fined GBP 8,000 after one of its employees broke his little finger and badly cut his ring finger in an accident at work.

Posted by Alison Spriggs

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