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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nadeem Badshah

One-year-old boy accidentally drowned in hot tub, inquest finds

The inquest was heard at Maidstone county hall in Kent
The inquest was heard at Maidstone county hall in Kent.
Photograph: Maurice Crooks/Alamy

The death of a one-year-old boy who drowned in a hot tub in a family friend’s garden was a tragic accident, an inquest has concluded.

Jetson Maffia-Kerbey was 21 months old when he died on 13 June 2022. The inquest at Maidstone county hall heard that on the day of Jetson’s death, his father, Nigel Kerbey, took him to spend the day with family friend Graham Morgan and his three-year-old daughter at their home in Folkestone, Kent.

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