Injured nurse awarded €135k

A psychiatric nurse who was injured when boxes of Weetabix breakfast cereal fell on her in Tesco has been awarded €135,000 in damages.

Christina Butler, of Crecora, Co Limerick, was shopping at Tesco in the Crescent Shopping Centre, Limerick, on May 2, 2008, when a number of boxes of Weetabix fell on her. This caused her to jerk away from the boxes before falling to the ground.

The mother of three suffered soft tissue injuries mainly to her neck, back and right shoulder.