The dead woman's mother - grandmother to the child - spoke yesterday of her anger at her daughter's death which she blamed on the "greed of the agricultural industry and the incompetence of officials and ministers in the last Conservative government. She has already started a compensation claim against the government on behalf of the child.
She said: "This disease would never have happened but for the disgusting practice of turning cows into cannibals and it would never have spread among humans if the agriculture ministry had heeded its own scientists'
warnings when the disease first appeared in cows."