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Farmer is fined £120,000 after deadly E.coli bug struck family fun day - leaving girl, seven, needing three operations, three blood transfusions and 11 days of dialysis
- Children suffered kidney failure after visit to event in Samlesbury, Lancs
- One seven-year-old girl needed three operations and blood transfusions
- Council said it was 'worst breach of health and safety' it had ever seen
- Basins were so contaminated it was safer for visitors NOT to wash hands
Children as young as one were left fighting for their lives after being struck down with the deadly E.coli bug following a lambing event at a farming fun day.
A group of 13 youngsters and two adults were affected by the bacterial infection after visiting Huntley's Country Stores in Samlesbury, Lancashire, where people could watch sheep give birth and feed and stroke lambs.
One girl aged just seven was left needing three operations, three blood transfusions and 11 days of kidney dialysis after attending the fun day.
Managing director of Huntley's, Harry Wilson, 68, admitted health and safety breaches and was ordered to pay £120,000 in Britain's first prosecution for an animal-related outbreak of E.coli O157.
Hidden bacteria: Harley Carroll, pictured right, five, was struck down with E.coli after stroking lambs at Huntley's while his sister Lacy Carroll, left, has still not fully recovered and struggles to fight infection.
