Denishar Woods's family given $1m payment after electric shock injury

Western Australian government makes act of grace payment over catastrophic brain injury from shock on public housing property

The family of a girl who suffered a catastrophic brain injury after a severe electric shock at a public housing property has been offered a $1m act of grace payment from the West Australian government.

Denishar Woods, then aged 11, was shocked with up to 230 volts when she touched a garden tap at a Beldon property in March.

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