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Antony Thrower

Two-month-old baby boy dies after parents leave him to sleep in box in garden shed

A baby shut away in a shed during lockdown died when his carrycot tipped off a cardboard box head first causing him to suffocate, a hearing heard.

The tiny tot, who was two-months-old, was put in the outhouse by his mother and father as the home was “overcrowded”, causing issues between the two.

Judge Steven Parker told proceedings at a private family court hearing in Liverpool the couple had been arguing as they had a lack of “sleep and intimacy”.

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