THE woman who tragic baby Aaron Gilbert called "nana" says she is furious a sacked social worker wants to win back their job.

Eleni Cordingley is taking Swansea Council to an employment tribunal after being struck off following her "extremely poor judgement" in the case of 13-month-old Aaron.

Sharon Hurlow, who first raised the alarm over fears that baby Aaron was in danger, said she was deeply upset by Mrs Cordingley's legal bid.

She said: "She is asking for her job back when baby Aaron is dead. I'm so disgusted.

"How dare she do this — I think it is really insensitive."

Mrs Hurlow, the cousin of Aaron's mother Rebecca Lewis, said she alerted social services to the tot's abuse just days before he was brutally murdered by Andrew Lloyd in 2005.

"I was incredibly worried at the marks I had seen over Aaron's body," added the 45-year-old, from Townhill. "Rebecca was in a state at that time and her boyfriend (Lloyd) had something evil about him."

She said she made two anonymous calls — on April 27 and May 5.

But hours later after her last call, Aaron was savagely attacked by Lloyd at his home in Gwylfa Road, Townhill.

His injuries were so severe he was transferred to the University of Wales Hospital in Cardiff. It later came to light that Aaron had more than 50 injuries when he died.

In 2006, Lloyd was jailed for a minimum of 24 years for Aaron's murder, while Lewis was given a six-year prison sentence for failing to prevent the killing.

After the tragedy, Mrs Cordingley returned to her job after being on maternity leave. She was given extra training and support, but faced a disciplinary hearing in October 2007.

A misconduct hearing carried out in Cardiff later led to her dismissal.

At the time, a committee said: "In failing to act appropriately in response to the complaints between April 27 and May 5, 2005, you (Mrs Cordingley) are guilty of misconduct by putting Child A (Aaron) at risk.

"By exercising extremely poor judgement, you failed to work in a safe and effective way."

Mrs Cordingley, who can no longer practice as a social worker anywhere in the UK, believes she was unfairly dismissed and is now taking the council to an employment tribunal.

But her move has angered those who knew and loved Aaron.

Mrs Hurlow, who said she feels guilty after mistakenly giving social services the old address of Lloyd and Lewis, added: "He was such as sweet baby and used to call me nana.

"I feel guilty about whether I did enough, but when you call social services to report something you expect them to check things out properly. Someone there should have been made accountable for not preventing his death.

"This woman (Mrs Cordingley) should accept she didn't do her job properly — as well as apologise."