Suing is no solution to life’s hard knocks

FORMER Ba purser Louise Graham (below) says she was left ‘in pieces’ after witnessing the death of a man who was being deported to angola on her flight. Now she is claiming £100,000 for psychiatric injuries in an ongoing case.

Jimmy mubenga died after a struggle with the security guards who were escorting him. It must have been an awful thing for miss Graham, right, to witness — but if everybody starts suing everyone for bad things they have seen in the course of doing their duty, where does that leave society?

Policemen, nurses, doctors, firemen, yes, I hate to say it but even lawyers — all those who are confronted with the rough stuff of life every day on every shift? Not to mention soldiers, mountain rescue teams, the heroes who man lifeboats with no thought for their own safety. I could go on.

Flight crews have to see all sorts. I i magine the midnight flight from manchester to alicante has its share of unforgettable horror. Yet I note that crews involved in life-threatening situations and near misses — like the plane that caught fire in Las Vegas recently — have yet to come forward and sue anyone. Where is this case and this unresolved trauma going? I can’t wait to find out.