A STOURPORT toddler has lost his eye after he was hit by a drone being operated by a friend of the family.

One of the drone’s propellers sliced 18-month-old Oscar Webb’s eye in half and, despite efforts to save it, doctors were left with no choice but to remove it.

He is set to undergo several more operations before he can have a prosthetic eye fitted.

Oscar's distraught mother, Amy Roberts, said she saw the horrific damage the accident had caused when she was in the ambulance rushing Oscar to hospital in Birmingham following the accident, which happened seven weeks ago.

She said: "What I saw, I can still see it now, and what I saw or what I thought I saw was the bottom half of his eye and it's the worst thing I've ever seen.

"I just hoped and prayed all the way there that what I saw wasn't true and wasn't real."

Oscar’s story was featured on BBC’s Watchdog programme last night (Thursday, November 27) after his grandmother contacted the show. The family warned about the dangers of using drones.

Simon Evans, the family friend who was operating the drone when it went out of control, told the programme he has not used the devices since and the sight of them makes him “physically sick”.

Mr Evans said: "It was up for about 60 seconds. As I brought it back down to land it just clipped the tree and span round.

"The next thing I know I've just heard my friend shriek and say 'Oh God no' and I turned around and just saw blood and his baby on the floor crying."