Boxer settles claim over treatment delay allegation

Jerome Wilson (left) started his boxing career in 2010

A boxer who suffered a life-changing brain injury in a fight nearly 10 years ago has settled a High Court claim involving allegations of delays to treatment.

Jerome Wilson, from Sheffield, was 29 when he was knocked out in the sixth round of a fight with Cameroonian Serge Ambomo at at the city's Ice Arena on 12 September 2014.

He was taken to hospital and underwent what his promoter described at the time as a "life-saving brain operation" before being placed in a medically induced coma.

At a remote hearing on Wednesday, a judge approved the settlement of a civil claim, brought by Mr Wilson and supported by his mother.

'Excrutiating pain'

The claim was brought against the British Boxing Board of Control, Dr Carl Hutson, Inter-County Paramedics Limited and David Coldwell.

According to a subsequent written court order, the confidential settlement was reached in a claim "arising from injuries sustained by Mr Wilson, a professional boxer, in a boxing match organised and managed by the defendants and involving allegations of delays to treatment".

A trial of the claim, which was due to start in October, will now not go ahead.

Speaking to the BBC earlier this year, Mr Wilson, who had a titanium plate fitted in his skull, said he continued to experience excrutiating pain as a result of his injury.

The former boxer began his career in 2010 and had a record of eight wins and two defeats going into the fight in September 2014.

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