SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: Tommy Cruikshanks said he wants justice for his 10-month old son Logan after his death in 2018.
A dad whose baby son died in a bathtime drowning tragedy has vowed to get justice after winning the right to sue Scotland’s biggest council for compensation.
Ten-month-old Logan Cruickshanks was living with his grandmother Agnes Kerr when he lost his life in August 2018 – having been placed there by Glasgow City Council as part of a kinship arrangement. But he died while being given a bath by his aunt Kayleigh Kerr, 25, who was living at the same address in Easterhouse.
She stood trial at the High Court in Glasgow in September 2022 for culpable homicide but was found not guilty and cleared of having responsibilty for his death.He said: “I won’t stop until someone is held responsible. Glasgow City Council did not carry out the proper assessments that I asked for.Tommy raised an action at the Court of Session in Edinburgh for compensation over his son’s death, holding the local authority social work department responsible.
At her last check, she found Logan “submerged”. She carried him to her mother’s bed to administer mouth-to -mouth resuscitation.At the conclusion of the four-day trial, Judge Lord Matthews said: “There are no winners in this case.”
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