A twin boy from Banbury left with normal intelligence locked in a "helpless" body because of medical negligence at birth has been awarded £3.4m agreed damages.
A High Court judge in London heard that there were "inexplicable and inexcusable" delays in delivering Oliver Davies by emergency Caesarean in 1995.
His QC, James Badenoch, told Mrs Justice Cox that if the boy had been delivered 20 minutes earlier at The Horton Hospital, Banbury, the probability was that he would have been born uninjured.
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust admitted liability. The QC said Oliver, now almost nine, who was delivered after his brother Will, suffers from a severe form of cerebral palsy, which has left him "terribly handicapped physically".
He is unable to walk and cannot talk intelligibly, but his mother can understand the noises he makes.
Mr Badenoch said that perhaps the saddest aspect of Oliver's case was that his intelligence was thought to be "intact", which meant he would be aware "of what he has lost and what might have been".
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