lizann
23-09-2009, 11:55
A four-year-old boy has died after falling and bumping his head in a Somerfield supermarket.
Harry Blackmore was swinging on a small steel rail when he fell in the store in Liverpool.
His devastated mother was shopping just yards away when the tragedy happened.
Harry was taken to hospital but died at the end of a 10-day bedside vigil by his parents Suzanne Bond and Stephen Blackmore.
While he was critically ill, the youngster was visited by his hero Steven Gerrard, who left him a new football as a present.
The distraught parents, who have four daughters, are now suing the supermarket giant for negligence.
They told how Harry was knocked unconscious after banging his head on the floor of the store in Park Road, Toxteth.
Mr Blackmore, 39, said: "Now we're lost. We're completely empty. We just can't believe it."
Harry was a keen footballer and had been taken to join a local club so he would not have to play football in the street.
The family said they were "so protective" over their son who was growing into a "proper little boy".
Harry trained every Saturday at Woolton Football Club, where there will be a minute's silence at all games this weekend.
Family solicitor Rex Makin told Sky News the family was taking legal action against Somerfield.
He said: "This is a working class neighbourhood with lots of children. We say that parents should be able to go shopping with their children in a safe environment.
"We say that the railing should not have been there or should not have been in that state."
A Somerfield spokesman said: "We were deeply saddened by the death of Harry Blackmore."
RIP - when they are that small and young the parents need to watch them all the time and also the supermarket should be better managed
Harry Blackmore was swinging on a small steel rail when he fell in the store in Liverpool.
His devastated mother was shopping just yards away when the tragedy happened.
Harry was taken to hospital but died at the end of a 10-day bedside vigil by his parents Suzanne Bond and Stephen Blackmore.
While he was critically ill, the youngster was visited by his hero Steven Gerrard, who left him a new football as a present.
The distraught parents, who have four daughters, are now suing the supermarket giant for negligence.
They told how Harry was knocked unconscious after banging his head on the floor of the store in Park Road, Toxteth.
Mr Blackmore, 39, said: "Now we're lost. We're completely empty. We just can't believe it."
Harry was a keen footballer and had been taken to join a local club so he would not have to play football in the street.
The family said they were "so protective" over their son who was growing into a "proper little boy".
Harry trained every Saturday at Woolton Football Club, where there will be a minute's silence at all games this weekend.
Family solicitor Rex Makin told Sky News the family was taking legal action against Somerfield.
He said: "This is a working class neighbourhood with lots of children. We say that parents should be able to go shopping with their children in a safe environment.
"We say that the railing should not have been there or should not have been in that state."
A Somerfield spokesman said: "We were deeply saddened by the death of Harry Blackmore."
RIP - when they are that small and young the parents need to watch them all the time and also the supermarket should be better managed