A HARLECH teacher has spoken of her family’s outrage after her seriously ill brother-in-law’s health benefits were stopped by the company he works for in America.

Sara Edwards, the head of science at Ysgol Ardudwy, received the sad news at the beginning of the year that her brother-in-law, Carwyn Edwards, 39, was suffering from Infective Endocarditis, which is a bacterial infection in the blood that settled on his mitral heart valve.

Mr Edwards, who has been living in Phoenix, Arizona, for the past 13 years, needed to have his left leg amputated above the knee and lost part of his lower leg because of the infection. He works for health insurance company Cigna who have been paying for his health benefits.

However, Sara, from Nantlle, near Penygroes, told the Cambrian News that Cigna has announced it will stop his medical benefits from 12 September.

See the full story in this week’s Meirionnydd and Arfon/Dwyfor editions of the Cambrian News