{"id":60137,"date":"2025-08-18T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/akram-mohammed-death-was-not-caused-by-mouldy-flat-coroner-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:29:00","slug":"akram-mohammed-death-was-not-caused-by-mouldy-flat-coroner-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=60137","title":{"rendered":"Akram Mohammed death was not caused by mouldy flat, coroner finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A baby who lived in a mouldy housing association flat in north London died of unrelated causes, a coroner has found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Akram Mohammed died in February aged 15 weeks, which his parents believed was due to damp conditions in their Camden home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Earlier this year, the boy&#8217;s death sparked angry protests aimed at housing association Notting Hill Genesis, over the state of the family&#8217;s flat and failure to rectify it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Senior coroner Mary Hassell acknowledged their home was damp and mouldy, but concluded that Akram actually died of Strep B, pneumonia and Vitamin D deficiency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">In evidence given to the hearing at St Pancras Coroner&#8217;s Court last week, a pathologist said that the fungal growths in Akram&#8217;s lungs did not match the mould found in the family&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The court heard the baby&#8217;s mother Aiat Mohammed had herself contracted Group B Streptococcus, known as Strep B, before Akram was born and as it had not been treated, the infection was passed to him. The bacteria affects about 500 newborns every year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Outside the court on Monday, Akram&#8217;s father Abdushafi told the BBC he accepted the coroner&#8217;s findings. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cj9wrgv3mgyo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A baby who lived in a mouldy housing association flat in north London died of unrelated&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7327,2889,3929,816,1684,5384,921,7328],"class_list":["post-60137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-akram","tag-caused","tag-coroner","tag-death","tag-finds","tag-flat","tag-mohammed","tag-mouldy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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