Parents say they 'felt blamed' over death of their baby at hospital

THE parents of a baby who died at Scotland's largest hospital have told how they felt blamed for the death of their daughter.

- By News Reporter

Tiny Freya Murphy was born with significant brain and organ damage after a catalogue of failures at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow led to her death.

Her parents Karen and Martin were devastated when they had to allow Freya's life support machines to be switched off when she was just seven days old.

A Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) found staffing shortages, medics' failure to notice that the baby was in distress as well as a lack of screening for Group B Streptococcus were factors in the youngster's death.

However the couple have said they have been left with more questions than answers after the FAI which took seven years to conclude.

Dad Martin, 44, from Cambuslang, near Glasgow, told the Sunday Mail: "It was the worst thing anyone could imagine happening to them. We left that hospital with no baby and no answers."

Karen, 40, says she had expressed the wish to have a natural birth in the early stages of her pregnancy.