An inquest has heard claims that an infection that caused the sudden and unexpected death of a healthy young Dublin teenager was present when he visited his family doctor two days before he died.
A sitting of Dublin District Coroner’s Court also heard the boy’s parents express regret they were unaware about the symptoms of sepsis at the time of his death five years ago. Seán Hughes (15) of Cardiff Castle Road, Finglas, died at Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street on January 12, 2018 – just hours after collapsing at his home from a cardiac arrest.
Post-mortem results showed the student from Coláiste Eoin in Finglas, who was an up-and-coming young rapper known as “Lil Red”, died from sepsis which had resulted from a combination of influenza B and a bacterial infection known as staphylococcus aureus. Several medical witnesses agreed with the family’s solicitor, Damien Tansey, that he was “beyond repair” after suffering the cardiac arrest.
