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The Independent
6 hours ago
- The Independent
Murder investigation launched after girl, 3, found dead in Leeds home
Police have launched a murder investigation after a three-year-old girl was found dead at a house in Leeds. Emergency services were called to Austhorpe Court at around 11:06 on Wednesday following a report of concern for the safety of a young child. The body of the girl was discovered inside the property, police said. A woman also found at the address has been arrested on suspicion of murder, West Yorkshire Police said in a statement on Thursday. She was taken to hospital where she remains in a stable condition. The force said they were treating the death as an 'isolated incident' and are not seeking anyone else in connection with it. They urged against speculation and asked the community to 'let us investigate,' adding they understood the incident would 'cause shockwaves' in the community. 'West Yorkshire Police has launched a murder investigation following the death of a child in Leeds,' a statement on their website reads. 'It follows a report received at 11.06am yesterday (Wednesday, 30 July) of concern for the safety of a young child.' Detective Chief Inspector Stacey Atkinson, of West Yorkshire Police's Homicide and Major Enquiry Team, said: 'Sadly when emergency services attended at an address on Austhorpe Court, Leeds, yesterday the body of a 3-year-old girl was found inside. 'A woman at the address was taken to hospital for urgent medical attention and remains there today in a stable condition. She has been arrested on suspicion of murder. "We are treating this as an isolated incident and are not seeking anyone else in connection with it. I understand that such a tragic incident as this will cause shockwaves in the local community and that there will be speculation about what has happened. 'I would ask people to please let us investigate and if you do have any information that you think could assist our enquiries to get in contact with the investigation team.' Live Chat online or by calling 101, quoting crime reference 13250433711.
Daily Mail
12 hours ago
- Health
- Daily Mail
Family of boy, five, who died after being sent home from hospital because of bed shortages say new report has 'not brought closure'
A new report into the death of a five-year-old boy after he was sent home from A&E has concluded that his mother's instinct that her child was unwell was 'repeatedly not addressed across services'. Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died on November 23, 2022, eight days after he was seen at Rotherham Hospital and sent home with antibiotics. A report into Yusuf's case in October 2023, by independent consultants and published by NHS South Yorkshire, found his care was appropriate and 'an admission was not clinically required', but this was rejected by his family. Yusuf's uncle Zaheer Ahmed has always said they were told 'there are no beds and not enough doctors' in the emergency department, and that Yusuf should have been admitted and given intravenous antibiotics in Rotherham. A new report published on Thursday by NHS England said in its conclusions: 'Our primary finding is that the parental concerns, particularly the mother's instinct that her child was unwell, were repeatedly not addressed across services. 'A reliance on clinical metrics over caregiver insight caused distress for the family. 'This led to a lack of shared decision-making and there was limited evidence of collaborative discussions with Yusuf's family around clinical decisions, leading to a sense of exclusion and reduced trust in care plans.' Yusuf, who had asthma, was taken to the GP with a sore throat and feeling unwell on November 15. He was prescribed antibiotics by an advanced nurse practitioner. Later that evening, his parents took him to Rotherham Hospital urgent & emergency care centre (UECC) where he was seen in the early hours of the morning after a six-hour wait. Yusuf was discharged with a diagnosis of severe tonsillitis and an extended prescription of antibiotics. Two days later Yusuf was given further antibiotics by his GP for a possible chest infection, but his family became so concerned they called an ambulance and insisted the paramedics take him to Sheffield Children's Hospital rather than Rotherham. Yusuf was admitted to the intensive care unit on November 21 but developed multi-organ failure and suffered several cardiac arrests which he did not survive. The 2023 report said there was only one doctor in the paediatric UECC on November 15 and, after midnight, that medic was responsible for covering adults and children. It added that the doctor who saw Yusuf is an experienced UECC doctor who would not have needed to refer to a paediatrician to admit him.
Yahoo
13 hours ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Report into death of boy sent home from A&E says family's instinct not addressed
A new report into the death of a five-year-old boy after he was sent home from A&E has concluded that his mother's instinct that her child was unwell was 'repeatedly not addressed across services'. Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died on November 23 2022, eight days after he was seen at Rotherham Hospital and sent home with antibiotics. A report into Yusuf's case in October 2023, by independent consultants and published by NHS South Yorkshire, found his care was appropriate and 'an admission was not clinically required', but this was rejected by his family. Yusuf's uncle Zaheer Ahmed has always said they were told 'there are no beds and not enough doctors' in the emergency department, and that Yusuf should have been admitted and given intravenous antibiotics in Rotherham. A new report published on Thursday by NHS England said in its conclusions: 'Our primary finding is that the parental concerns, particularly the mother's instinct that her child was unwell, were repeatedly not addressed across services. 'A reliance on clinical metrics over caregiver insight caused distress for the family. 'This led to a lack of shared decision-making and there was limited evidence of collaborative discussions with Yusuf's family around clinical decisions, leading to a sense of exclusion and reduced trust in care plans.' Yusuf, who had asthma, was taken to the GP with a sore throat and feeling unwell on November 15. He was prescribed antibiotics by an advanced nurse practitioner. Later that evening, his parents took him to Rotherham Hospital urgent & emergency care centre (UECC) where he was seen in the early hours of the morning after a six-hour wait. Yusuf was discharged with a diagnosis of severe tonsillitis and an extended prescription of antibiotics. Two days later Yusuf was given further antibiotics by his GP for a possible chest infection, but his family became so concerned they called an ambulance and insisted the paramedics take him to Sheffield Children's Hospital rather than Rotherham. Yusuf was admitted to the intensive care unit on November 21 but developed multi-organ failure and suffered several cardiac arrests which he did not survive. The 2023 report said there was only one doctor in the paediatric UECC on November 15 and, after midnight, that medic was responsible for covering adults and children. It added that the doctor who saw Yusuf is an experienced UECC doctor who would not have needed to refer to a paediatrician to admit him.
Sky News
21 hours ago
- Health
- Sky News
Yusuf Nazir: New report examines death of boy who was sent home from hospital due to a 'lack of beds'
The mother of a five-year-old boy who died after being sent home from hospital because of a "lack of beds" has told Sky News that the second report into his death "has not brought closure for the family". Yusuf Nazir died in November 2022. His mother Soniya had rushed her son to Rotherham Hospital's A&E, only to be told "there were no beds available". Yusuf was eventually seen by a doctor but then sent home. Soniya says the doctor told her that "Yusuf had the worst case of tonsillitis he had ever seen". But the child's health continued to deteriorate, and his desperately worried mother called an ambulance to rush him to the nearby specialist children's hospital in Sheffield. It was here, the report says, that a number of critical interventions were missed. Yusuf's family say that, if doctors had acted sooner, he would still be alive. Speaking in her first interview since Yusuf's death, Soniya described the panic she felt as a mother watching her son "dying in front of her eyes". "I carried Yusuf to the nurse, floppy with his eyes rolled back, struggling to breathe, myself to the nurse," Soniya said. "She said: 'We're too busy, we can't get a doctor, you'll have to wait.'" Other patients in the waiting room intervened when they saw Yusuf gasping for air and struggling to breathe, but they were told Yusuf's mother should approach the nurses herself if she was concerned. This second independent report was backed by Wes Streeting when he was shadow health secretary. A previous internal NHS report found no wrongdoing on the part of Rotherham Hospital. The family have described that report as a "whitewash". Their claim will be supported by this second report, which says: "It's clear that across all settings - primary care, pre-hospital, emergency and inpatient - the healthcare system failed to truly hear the family's voice." It also says staff should have listened to the "mother's instinct". "I knew he was very, very poorly, he was struggling to breath, he was lethargic, he was floppy," Soniya told Sky News. "I knew that something's not right before they even escalated it to the ICU. I knew he was very poorly but no one else picked it up." The health secretary told Sky News: "There are no excuses for the tragic failings in the lead up to Yusuf's death, and I know first-hand how hard it has been for his family to live without the answers they deserve. "This independent report reveals their concerns were repeatedly not addressed across NHS services. "It is now the responsibility of the NHS to implement the recommendations in this report so that the family can at least take small comfort in knowing that because of Yusuf - and thanks to Yusuf - children will be safer and better cared for in the future, but I know that really is of no consolation for a loving family living with the unimaginable pain of losing a lovely little boy in these awful circumstances." Part of the report's key findings shows Yusuf had 23 separate healthcare contacts across four NHS organisations that were responsible for his care, but there was no coordinated record or oversight. It found the clinical assessments that were made were inconsistent and led to difficulties in comparing his condition over time. Routine care prior to his crisis was marked by a wait-and-see approach that failed to pre-empt worsening conditions. It also recorded clinical staff at Sheffield used an outdated cannula method that failed to give Yusuf potentially life-saving drugs. Soniya says she pointed out the leaking cannula to Yusuf's nurses, but her concerns were brushed aside. "The cannula burst and the whole bed was full of his medication and blood on the morning he went to the ICU, the whole weekend he'd not had that medication," she said. "He'd have been in pain and he wouldn't have been getting any better if he wasn't having the medication. And I think that's the reason Yusuf's not here anymore. "From the moment he was in Sheffield Children's Hospital until the end I think he didn't get any treatment, it was just like him being at home." Soniya says she welcomes the report's findings that show Yusuf did not get the care he needed - but the investigation does not find a cause of death or apportion blame. The investigation has made national recommendations, including consultant-led oversight on weekends and giving parents visibility of their child's medical records. Sky News has closely followed the family's fight for answers since first reporting on Yusuf's case, two days after he died. 1:04 Dr Jeff Perring, executive medical director at Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, said: "We recognise the profound loss felt by Yusuf's family and those who loved him. "We will be reviewing the recommendations of the report and taking those forward through education, guidance, policy and training to deliver the best care for our children, young people and families." "We want change," Soniya says. "We want this not to happen to any other child. Because if they don't change, there's going to be another child and another mother sat here telling you the same story." Dr Jo Beahan, medical director at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, said: "Our deepest sympathies remain with Yusuf's family following such a sad loss of a loved family member. "Since November 2022, we have taken steps to address the concern relating to Yusuf's care which includes listening to the concerns of parents and carers. Our thoughts continue to be with Yusuf's family." Professor Aidan Fowler, national director of patient safety in England, said: "Our sympathies remain with Yusuf's family, and we acknowledge the heavy toll this investigation has placed on them - while grieving an unimaginable loss. "Following publication of the final report today, we will respond on the findings and how we will be taking forward the recommendations in the report to ensure there are continuing improvements in patient safety and care for children across NHS hospitals and services in the future." The Nazir family's fight is not over. This report cannot confirm Yusuf's cause of death, or say if his life could have been saved with better care. It is why Soniya is demanding a coroner's inquest into her son's death: so that she and her family can finally have closure.
BBC News
a day ago
- BBC News
Veronique John attacked husband before killing children, inquest hears
A mum who was allowed home by police after attacking her husband went on to kill their two children hours later, a coroner has John was handed an indefinite hospital order last year after the fatal attacks on daughter Elizabeth, seven, and son Ethan, 11, at their Stoke-on-Trent home on 11 June an inquest into the deaths this week, coroner Emma Serrano heard evidence from a Staffordshire Police officer who went to the family home before the children died, and details of a review that found the force's service had been "inadequate".The children's father, Nathan John, had raised concerns his wife would "use the children against him", the inquest was told. Police were first called to the family home in Flax Street on 9 June after Mrs John had dialled 999, the inquest PC Megan Maddox arrived Mr John had left the house, but the two children were upstairs and she deemed the case to be "medium risk".PC John Harrison, who was involved in the case review, said it had been the family's first interaction with the force, adding: "I believe (the children) overheard verbal arguing; both children were in bed upstairs and didn't see any violence." 'Attacked with wood' Later that day, Mr John made a 999 call and said he had been hit by his wife and when officers went to his workplace on 10 June, he had a swollen forearm and a lump on his told officers that Mrs John had attacked him with a piece of wood and threatened to stab him in his custody, Mrs John admitted she had slapped him, but denied making threats to Steven Marriott, responsible for the custody facility, said Mrs John confirmed she was taking medication for said the facility's mental health team had left for the day but a healthcare professional was available to assess Mrs John if it had been considered necessary."There was nothing that made me feel she needed to see a healthcare professional at the time," added PC was suggested the incident be dealt with through a community resolution notice because it was Mrs John's first involvement with police. Mrs John returned home early on 11 June and her husband went to another address. That afternoon Mr John reported he had been Harrison said: "Officers initially went to the home address and that's where officers found both of the children. Veronique John contacted police, stating she was at her home and had killed the children."Paramedics attended but the children died shortly after 14:30 BST. The coroner heard that if a domestic violence protection notice had been issued instead of the community resolution notice it would have prevented Mrs John returning home for 48 Maddox said: "While I was speaking to Mr John on the Saturday evening I asked if the children were safe at home with mum and he said yes; I believed there was no physical threat to the children."I thought the physical risk was focused on Mr John, not the children."The inquest continues. This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service, which covers councils and other public service organisations. Follow BBC Stoke & Staffordshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
