Chain fined for death of baby

Catherine Gaunt
Wednesday, November 5, 2003

Aleading nursery chain will have to pay nearly Pounds 80,000 over the death of a baby in its care. Jigsaw Day Nurseries was fined 60,000 and ordered to pay 19,000 costs by a judge at Aylesbury Crown Court last week, after admitting to safety failures that led to the death of five-month-old Thomas Egan in April last year. The baby had been fed a breakfast cereal that contained cow's milk protein to which he was allergic.