A young British mother has died after a toilet brush handle stuck up her bum for five years took its toll. The six-inch piece of plastic toilet brush handle became stuck in her buttock after a drunken fall at a friend’s house in 2005.

Cindy Corton, 35 was suffering constant pain after the accident. She went to the local hospital on the night of the accident, but was sent home with painkillers after doctors could not find anything wrong with her.
She spent the next two years trying to convince medics that the handle was buried in the flesh of her buttock.

Despite more hospital visits and X-ray, doctors still missed the 15cm serrated plastic handle. An MRI scan in 2007 finally spotted the brush handle but by then it was embedded in her pelvis and two operations failed to remove it.

Tragedy stuck during a much riskier surgery at Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre in June last year when Mrs Corton died from huge blood loss. Coroner Stuart Fisher of Grantham Magistrates Court said it was a “serious failure” that the hospital failed to spot the brush handle earlier.

Cindy Corton had a six-inch length of toilet brush holder embedded in her buttock

Husband Peter Corton, who has started a civil action suit against the medical Trust, said he believes she would still be alive if the correct diagnosis had been made earlier.”Cindy got a very poor service from the NHS.

“I’m sure she would have got better treatment in foreign countries.” he said. A Trust spokesman said that the case was “unusual” and that all the facts were not given on Mrs Corton’s visits to accident and emergency departments.