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

Birmingham-based Soffe family still fighting for compensation after fire in Gulf state left Elizabeth with life-threatening burns

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.