A MOTHER who gave birth to a child stricken by an untreatable genetic disease after being given negligent advice, has lost her compensation case.

Raisa Loft, 14, of Cleveland Road, Welling, was born with Huntingdon’s Chorea, a disease causing progressive dementia, passed down to her by her father, Simon, who died, in October 2000.

Knowing of her husband’s disease, her mum Lynda, 49, went for IVF treatment at the Infertility Advisory Centre (IAC), in London, falling pregnant with Raisa, in 1988.

Mrs Loft says an IAC staff member advised her to have normal sex with her husband before implantation of her treated eggs to “make her uterus more receptive”.

She fell pregnant, but only realised Raisa showed signs of the disease in 1998. Mrs Loft sued the IAC’s former medical director, Dr Jack Gilliatt, but her claim was dismissed, at the High Court, on June 17.

Mrs Loft did not know the staff member who gave her the advice. She was refused leave to appeal.