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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Matt Watts

Mother blames London council after son, 5, died in 'preventable' fall from 15th floor flat

Jacobs House in Plaistow, east London (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

The mother of a five-year-old boy who fell to his death from his 15th floor flat told an inquest he still “could have been here” if the council had done its job properly.

Aalim Ahmed’s death at the residential high rise block in Plaistow, east London was “preventable”, Sahra Osman said.

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