Father, 51, died of sepsis after he wasn't given antibiotics for FIVE days by doctors at troubled hospital despite having classic symptoms of the illness

Father, 51, died of sepsis after he wasn't given antibiotics for FIVE days by doctors at troubled hospital despite having classic symptoms of the illness

• Simon Smith was admitted to hospital with an excruciating leg pain last year
• He should have been given antibiotics soon after, according to care assessment
• But staff at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley failed to give him drugs he needed 
• Mr Smith died aged 51 of sepsis after he wasn't given antibiotics for five days