The father of a 15-week-old baby Akram Mohammed who died this February has said he is “convinced” poor social housing conditions contributed to his death. Abdushafaiat and Aiat Mohammed were living in a damp flat that was covered in black mould. An inquest into how and why Akram Mohammed died will be held in August.
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00:00He was struggling to breathe. It was hard to breathe there, to be honest.
00:04Even for a healthy person, not a baby, we took him to the GP, to the healthy visitor.
00:12They all said to us, like, you don't need to worry. Like, it's nothing to worry about.
00:18His eyes rolled up and something white came out of his mouth, so he couldn't respond anymore.
00:26Are you convinced that your son died because of the state of that flat?
00:32Yes, because of the moon and the dam. Now he started complaining for a long time. Over five years. Over five years.