Tragic schoolboy Hakeem Hussain told teachers he was "1,000% scared" by life with his drug addict mother a year before he died alone and gasping for breath in the garden of their squalid home.
Hakeem, who had severe asthma, suffered horrifying neglect by Laura Heath, who was lying in a heroin-induced sleep as her son died aged just seven. She is serving a 20-year jail sentence for manslaughter and child cruelty.
Hakeem's desperate attempts to get help are one of the most harrowing aspects of a serious case review into his life and death, reported by the Birmingham Mail. At the age of just six, the boy, identified as "gifted and talented" when he first went to school, told teachers: "I am 5% happy, 100% angry and 1,000% scared."
