We are acting for the family of Mr Jamie Merrett 37, from Devizes, whose ventilator was accidentally switched off by an agency nurse working for the NHS, Nurse Violetta Aylward, leaving him brain-damaged.Mr Merrett has been cared for at home on a life-support machine since 2002 after being left paralysed from the neck downwards following a road accident. Mr Merrett was able to use a wheelchair and was able to talk and operate a computer using despite being tetraplegic.
His sister Karren Reynolds said he had become increasingly worried about serious errors involving nurses operating his ventilator, but claimed that health bosses did not act on e-mails of concern which he sent them.
