Irish family reveal six-year legal battle in Qatar over daughter’s severe injuries

Liam and Sinead Soffe with their daughter Elizabeth, who has has undergone more than 70 skin grafts and other reconstructive surgeries at Birmingham children’s hospital. Photograph: Andrew Fox/The Guardian

A Birmingham family have revealed the distress they have endured in a six-year legal battle in Qatar to gain compensation for the severe injuries experienced by their youngest daughter when they lived in the Gulf state.

Elizabeth Soffe, now eight, received life-threatening burns as a baby in a fire at her family’s villa in Al Waab, near the country’s capital, Doha, in 2014.