Boy settles for €66k over second-degree burns from Aer Lingus hot chocolate spill

The boy has been left with a pale scar on his thigh

Jake Hegarty Murphy (now 16) of Stocking Wood Green, Rathfarnham, Dublin, had sued Aer Lingus over the accident on the Dublin to Malaga flight on October 3, 2018. File photo

A boy who suffered second-degree burns when hot chocolate spilled on him during an Aer Lingus flight has settled a High Court action for over €66,000.

Jake Hegarty Murphy, now 15, was 11 years of age and travelling with his grandmother to a family wedding in Malaga when the accident happened on board the Dublin to Malaga flight four years ago.