Death of two-year-old from mould in flat a ‘defining moment’, says coroner

Awaab Ishak. A number of things went wrong in the case, some of them contributing to the boy’s death, the coroner said. Photograph: Family handout/PA

A coroner has said the death of an “engaging, lively, endearing” two-year-old from prolonged exposure to mould in his family’s flat should be a “defining moment” for the UK’s housing sector.

Awaab Ishak died in 2020, eight days after his second birthday, as a direct result of black mould in the flat he lived in.