Restaurant apologises for serving two-year-old boy whisky

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A restaurant chain has apologised after a child was accidentally served whisky as he celebrated his second birthday.

Sonny Rees's worried family took the boy to hospital following the mix-up at a Frankie and Benny's restaurant in Swansea.

He was asleep by the time he got to hospital but was given the all-clear and was later sick when his parents got him home.

Sonny's family believe the restaurant staff may have mixed the boy's drink up with one that was supposed to go to a nearby stag party.

A spokesman for Frankie and Benny's said: "We are very sorry that this happened. It was a human error, an accident, and we are putting in place processes to ensure that this sort of thing doesn't happen again.

Sonny's mother, Nina, told the South Wales Evening Post: "I immediately went into a panic and a rage. I was crying my eyes out, and called NHS Direct, which told me to take him straight to A&E.

"We had gone in just after noon and I had ordered him water and cordial. I realised what Sonny had been drinking when I had to retrieve a dropped toy from his glass and I could smell the whisky on it.

"I think there was a stag do in there at the same time and that the drinks had been accidentally mixed up. Because he was eating salty things I had been encouraging him to drink."