05/08/2009 - Pub-fall victim wins compensation
A woman has been awarded £18,000 compensation after she broke her leg when her stiletto heel got caught in a pub's poorly-lit smoking area.
Selena Gilder, 40, was smoking at the back of the Albion Pub, in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, in October 2007 when her heel got snagged in broken concrete and she fell backwards through an unsealed door.
Ms Gilder, then a hospital cleaner, couldn't work for eight months as a result of her injuries and subsequently decided to take legal action.
After medical evidence showed Ms Gilder broke the tibia and fibula in her right leg the pub's insurers agreed to settle.
Ms Gilder has only been able to walk normally for the last two months after the latest of three operations, which included pins being fitted to her knee, was completed.
Ms Gilder, who now works at a car dealership, plans to invest the money and move on.
"It's been horrendous - I wouldn't want anyone to experience what I experienced. I am angry at the pub and will never go in the place again," she said.
She said she understood lighting had been improved since the incident.
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