THE daughter of a former docker says justice has been done after she won a five-figure payout for her father’s death from an industrial disease.

Jacqueline Hall’s father John Raymond Carter died in November 2011, aged 91, following a long illness.

It was later confirmed he died of asbestosis, a disease caused by exposure to asbestos.

Mrs Hall, who gave up work to care for her father for the last three years of his life at her home in Coxhoe, County Durham, sued his former employer for failing to protect him from the deadly material while working at Hull docks, East Yorkshire.

Now Mrs Hall has secured an undisclosed five-figure compensation settlement.

The 55-year-old said: “My dad was my life and I spent all of my time with him. I did everything for him for the last three years of his life.

“I’m delighted that we finally have justice for him and that those who failed to protect him for asbestos exposure have been held to account.

“No amount of money will ever replace the loss of my dad and since his death I have been determined to honour his name so I am hugely relieved that this settlement has been achieved.”

Isobell Lovett, from Mrs Hall’s lawyers Irwin and Mitchell, said: “This has been an extremely difficult time for Jacqueline, who has fought determinedly and tirelessly to get justice for her father.”

Mr Carter, a Royal Navy gunner during the Second World War, helped load sacks of asbestos for Gillyott and Scott at Hull docks in the 1960s and 1960s.