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Series of blunders ended in death of woman

FATHER-OF-THREE Alastair Laing, from Port Glasgow, is among the hundreds of Scots seeking compensation for medical negligence after a series of blunders led to the death of his wife four years ago.

HEARTBREAK: Alastair Laing from Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, with a photograph of his wife Judy who died in 2009. Picture: Colin Mearns
HEARTBREAK: Alastair Laing from Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, with a photograph of his wife Judy who died in 2009. Picture: Colin Mearns

Judith Laing, known to her family as Judy, was 65 when she woke with stomach pains in the early hours of a Saturday morning in December 2008.

She became violently sick, but when her husband of 45 years phoned NHS 24 he was told she should just take a paracetemol.

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