GRIEVING mum Carole Graham is considering legal action over an error which sent an ambulance to the wrong address as her son lay dying.

Yorkshire Ambulance Service dispatched paramedics to an Almondbury house several miles from 12-year-old Jordan Valerio’s Honley home.

His sister Daniella, 19, had called 999 after finding Jordan hanged by a karate belt in his bedroom at their Roundway home in Honley last November 30.

But an ambulance from the station at Marsh was sent to Almondbury because of a fault with an automated database which matches phone numbers to addresses.

When the mistake was realised a vehicle was sent to Roundway. But by then it was too late, claims Carole.

At Jordan’s inquest in August, doctors said the delay probably did not make a difference.

Jordan would have lost consciousness quickly, most likely before he was found.

But nearly a year on, Carole, 45, says she is still angry.

She said: “I don’t know if it would have made a difference, and I’ll never know. But that’s the thing – maybe he would still be here if there hadn’t been a mistake.

“I’m very angry with them and the way they dealt with it. It was human error and we’re all human, but I have never even had an apology, they’ve never said sorry, they’ve just tried to explain it away.

“I’ve spoken to a solicitor to see if I have grounds for a claim. But the main thing I want is an apology.”

The inquest heard Daniella called an ambulance at 5.09pm and carried out instructions given to her by ambulance dispatcher James Henninghan.

But at 5.14pm he realised the crew had been sent to the wrong address.

It emerged he did not check the address with Daniella, instead relying on the computer system.

Carole said: “When Daniella called for the ambulance she was extremely distressed, as I imagine most people would be.

“Unfortunately the operator didn’t take her name or address. They relied on the database.

“They took that reading and sent an ambulance from Marsh to an address in Almondbury, when there’s an ambulance station in Honley that I could literally have shouted to from my house.”

She added: “By the time Jordan got to the hospital it was 5.50pm and they were still trying to save his life, but it was too late.”

Mr Henninghan admitted his mistake at the inquest and the ambulance service said it had investigated and lessons had been learned.

While an earlier ambulance may not have saved Jordan, Carole is concerned that relying on the computer system could put other lives at risk in future.

She said: “If the number is wrong for my address, who else’s is wrong? There needs to be a safety net to stop this happening again.”

A spokeswoman for Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS) said: “YAS NHS Trust is extremely sympathetic to the family’s tragic loss.

“The incident was fully investigated at the time and culminated in a coroner’s court hearing.”

Carole has organised a fund-raising day at Honley Village Hall on November 1 from noon to raise funds for the Joseph Salmon Trust, a charity which helps bereaved parents cover funeral costs.

The charity covered the £2,000 cost of a headstone for Jordan’s grave.