A mother-of-two whose four year-old son died after allegedly being misdiagnosed by Lewisham Hospital is appealing for an apology.

Amy Pearce, 31, lost her son Danny to meningitis after he was allegedly misdiagnosed by Lewisham Hospital the day before.

Her son, Danny was taken to Lewisham Hospital after vomiting and not being able to eat.

Ms Pearce said: "We waited three hours in A&E just to see someone, it was really bad because Dan was being sick.

"We were told he had viral tonsillitis and they sent him home."

Ms Pearce then found Danny unconscious in bed at 7.30am the next day, covered in a purple rash.

He was taken to a south London hospital but was pronounced dead at 12:30pm on May 5 2011 from meningococcal septicaemia, a form of meningitis.

Ms Pearce said: "It was all a blur, you don't really understand what's happening.

"I had to leave him there and go back the next day to get him, then I just stayed with him for days and days until the funeral."

After a three-year court battle, Lewisham Hospital paid an out-of-court settlement but Ms Pearce revealed the main thing she wanted was an apology.

She said: "It was never about the money, they could burn it for all I care, I just didn't want them to get away with it.

"For a long time I blamed myself for Danny's death but now we've got the settlement I at least know there was nothing I could have done.

"My head was all over the place at the start of the case, I thought winning it might have brought Dan back, but nothing will.

"It's all too late now but an apology is an apology."

Ms Pearce previously lived in Crutchley Road, Hither Green, but had to move to Rochester after the incident because she couldn't face ever going to Lewisham Hospital again.

A Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust spokesman said: "We have the greatest sympathy for the family's loss and we acknowledge how devastating it was for them to lose a child.

"The decision to make an out of court payment was made as we did not fell it was in the family's interest to proceed with a lengthy legal process, that would also divert funds from patient care.

"The family and the Trust mutually agreed this settlement and no admissions of fault were made in the case."