Widow of asbestos victim gets £290,000

The widow of a carpenter exposed to asbestos has received £290,000 damages for her husband’s death. He died earlier this year from mesothelioma. Her husband was exposed to asbestos in the late 1960s and early 1970s when he worked as an apprentice carpenter at a building and contracting firm, sawing asbestos board. He was only 52 when he died, and had been diagnosed with the condition only nine months before.