Boy jabbed in foot by addict's needle
Published: 00:00, 16 August 2007
Updated: 11:49, 17 August 2007
A FIVE-year-old boy is having hospital treatment after accidentally pricking himself on a drug addict's needle he found discarded on a city street.
Now the parents of Jack Phipps have an anxious wait for him to be given the all-clear from infections like hepatitis B and the HIV virus.
The incident happened in Canterbury when the youngster was walking with his father, Alex.
Mr Phipps, a clinical pharmacologist, of Cathedral View, Canterbury, said: "I was absolutely horrified and just got him to hospital as soon as possible.
"My wife, Joanne and I are just so angry that some drug addict has put my son through this and his life potentially at risk."
* See the Kentish Gazette (Thursday, August 16) for the full story.
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