Cumbria infant drowning turns spotlight on dangers of baby bath chairs

Chester was flown by air ambulance to the Great North children’s hospital at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle but died three days later. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

The drowning of a nine-month-old boy has prompted a coroner to call for a national safety campaign on the dangers of baby bath chairs after a series of similar deaths and injuries.

Chester Mossop, a “healthy and well looked after” child from Cockermouth in Cumbria, died in May last year when the chair in which he was sitting became unfixed and his head slipped under the bathwater.