5-year-old sues over metal nut in cookie

Nalini Lalla of the law firm KR Lalla and Co has filed a writ in the Registry of the Port-of-Spain High Court on behalf of five-year-old Tamara Jackson who through her father Franklin Jackson, is claiming damages against the Bermudez Biscuit Co after she allegedly found a metal nut in a cookie made by the company. The statement of claim relates that on November 27, 2002, Tamara received two packets of the cookie as part of a sale promotion at a pizza outlet. Her father opened one of the packet and Tamara extracted one and was about to place it in her mouth when her father observed the nut lodged in the cookie.