Disney fined over bootees
Tuesday, 8 October, 2002, 17:06 GMT 18:06 UK
Godalming, Surrey, UK (BBC News) -- The Disney Store has been fined for selling a dangerous product after a pair of bootees cut off the circulation to a baby's toe. Guildford Magistrates Court heard that Alexa Davies bought the £5.99 Tigger bootees for her new-born daughter Kayleigh in the Guilford branch of the Disney chain in March 2000.
Miss Davies, from Godalming, Surrey, put them on her daughter's feet to wear to bed eight months later and the next day she noticed Kayleigh's toe had got caught in an elasticated loop under the bootee's tongue.
The court heard that Miss Davies, 21, noticed her daughter's toe was swollen and had turned black when she went to bath her the following day.
Bootees re-designed
She took her to hospital where doctors confirmed the blood flow had been severely restricted, leaving the toe black and double its normal size needing treatment with antibiotics.
Miss Davies, whose daughter is now two, wrote to the store in January 2001 complaining about the injury and received a reply back in March assuring her the bootees had been redesigned.
However the court heard trading standards officers from Surrey County Council were still able to buy the same design in the Guilford branch in May 2001.
The bootees were sent for testing and it was confirmed they were illegal under the General Product Safety Regulations 1994 Act.
The Disney Store, who pleaded not guilty, was fined £1,500 and ordered to pay £3,039 costs.
Tuesday, 8 October, 2002, 17:06 GMT 18:06 UK
Godalming, Surrey, UK (BBC News) -- The Disney Store has been fined for selling a dangerous product after a pair of bootees cut off the circulation to a baby's toe. Guildford Magistrates Court heard that Alexa Davies bought the £5.99 Tigger bootees for her new-born daughter Kayleigh in the Guilford branch of the Disney chain in March 2000.
Miss Davies, from Godalming, Surrey, put them on her daughter's feet to wear to bed eight months later and the next day she noticed Kayleigh's toe had got caught in an elasticated loop under the bootee's tongue.
The court heard that Miss Davies, 21, noticed her daughter's toe was swollen and had turned black when she went to bath her the following day.
Bootees re-designed
She took her to hospital where doctors confirmed the blood flow had been severely restricted, leaving the toe black and double its normal size needing treatment with antibiotics.
Miss Davies, whose daughter is now two, wrote to the store in January 2001 complaining about the injury and received a reply back in March assuring her the bootees had been redesigned.
However the court heard trading standards officers from Surrey County Council were still able to buy the same design in the Guilford branch in May 2001.
The bootees were sent for testing and it was confirmed they were illegal under the General Product Safety Regulations 1994 Act.
The Disney Store, who pleaded not guilty, was fined £1,500 and ordered to pay £3,039 costs.
