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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rebecca Thomas

These disabled children died after they were left alone in their beds in the same care home. Now police are investigating

Connor Wellsted, five, Mia Gauci-Lamport, 16, and Raihana Oluwadamilola Awolaja, 12, all died while in the care of The Children’s Trust in Surrey - (Family Handout)

Three disabled children died in similar circumstances at the UK's largest brain rehabilitation centre for children despite warnings about care failings, The Independent can reveal.

Five-year-old Connor Wellsted died in 2017 at The Children's Trust’s (TCT) Tadworth unit in Surrey, having suffocated when a cot bumper became lodged under his chin.

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