A baby living in “overcrowded circumstances” during lockdown died after he was put to sleep in a shed, a family court judge has concluded. Judge Steven Parker decided either the boy’s mother or father “in haste or recklessly” placed his carrycot on an unsecured cardboard box in the outhouse.
The judge said the cot “tipped head first” off the box, causing the baby’s face to become “pressed up against the carrycot side with his head in an unnatural and unusual position”. He said the little boy died after his “breathing or ventilation” was “compromised”.
Judge Parker outlined details of the case in a written ruling after considering evidence at a private family court hearing in Liverpool. He said the baby was about two months old.
