£1.8mn in damages over disabling inheritable condition

A mother has been awarded £1.8mn in damages after she was mistakenly told her third son did not have a disabling inheritable condition. The woman had become pregnant with her third child. Her oldest son was healthy, but in the early stages of her pregnancy with her third child, her second son was diagnosed as having Fragile X syndrome, a potentially seriously disabling inheritable condition causing intellectual, behavioural and physical problems.