‘Faith sustained me during organ retention horror’

A BEREAVED mother told Britain’s High Court yesterday that her strong religious faith had helped sustain her since discovering her dead son’s brain was retained and disposed of following a post-mortem examination.

Former Wren and mother-of-three Susan Carpenter, who lives with her husband Alan in Norfolk, was giving evidence in an action for fair compensation brought by more than 2,000 families who accuse the medical profession of “unlawfully” taking organs from their dead children without their knowledge.

Mrs Carpenter’s son Daniel was born on September 12, 1985, but died aged 17 months in February 1987 after surgery to remove a brain tumour.