Mum ‘used son’s inhaler to smoke crack and heroin before he died from asthma attack’

Hakeem Hussain died at dwelling in November 2017 (Image: BPM Media/West Midlands Police/SWNS)

Heartbreaking images present the ‘squalid’ situations a seven-year-old boy was allegedly compelled to name dwelling.

Laura Heath, 39, has gone on trial at Coventry Crown Court docket, charged with manslaughter following the demise of her son Hakeem Hussain. 

He died in November 2017 after a deadly bronchial asthma assault. 

His physique was found in a ‘near-freezing’ backyard of a home in Nechells, Birmingham. 

Two ambulances rushed to the scene however paramedics couldn't save the schoolboy. 

Hakeem’s mum has been accused of fatally neglecting him, which included exposing him to heroin and crack cocaine from an early age. 

The jury was advised medicine have been Heath’s ‘first precedence in life’. 

Allegedly, she would wrap her son’s inhalers in foil so she may use them to smoke medicine. 

The schoolboy’s bronchial asthma tools was ‘used to smoke medicine’ (Image: West Midlands Police/SWNS)

Laura Heath has gone on trial following the demise of Hakeem (Image: West Midlands Police/SWNS)

Hakeem was made to sleep on the couch in squalid situations, the trial heard (Image: West Midlands Police/SWNS)

Hakeem was additionally compelled to sleep on a settee in ‘squalid’ situations in her dwelling, the courtroom heard. 

The odor of cigarettes allegedly wafted off his garments at college and his jumper smelled of urine. 

Additional pictures proven to the jury depicted two cramped homes the place Heath and Hakeem stayed. 

They had moved from a property on Lengthy Acre to a home on Cook dinner Avenue, each in Nechells, and went backwards and forwards between the 2. 

Horrifying photos present piles of luggage and bins piled inside a cot in addition to different ‘unclean’ rooms which have been mentioned to have ‘smelled of uncooked smoke’. 

Heath was mentioned to ‘supply heroin and crack cocaine’ as her ‘first precedence in life’ (Image: West Midlands Police / SWNS)

Photos launched by police present the size of the mess (Image: West Midlands Police/ SWNS)

The courtroom heard Hakeem’s respiration bought worse ‘daily’ and, the evening earlier than he was discovered lifeless, he had gone exterior alone to get some recent air. 

No treatment was discovered alongside his physique and a autopsy concluded Hakeem’s reason behind demise was acute exacerbation of bronchial asthma. 

Hakeem was additionally identified to social companies and was classed as ‘susceptible’ resulting from considerations about ‘neglect, attendance points and his dwelling life’. 

A baby safety assembly was held two days earlier than his demise. 

There, a faculty nurse had desperately warned Hakeem was vulnerable to dying and must be taken away from his mum. 

The Birmingham Mail reviews Hakeem solely attended 15 and a half out of 52 college days from September 2017 up till his demise in November.

Hakeem tragically died exterior his dwelling in Birmingham (Image: BPM Media)

Tributes left on Cook dinner Avenue in Birmingham after Hakeem’s demise in 2017 (Image: SWNS)

But it surely was determined he shouldn't be faraway from Heath’s care regardless of him being at a ‘severe threat of hurt’.

Buddies additionally advised the courtroom how they witnessed Heath smoking class A medicine whereas Hakeem was feeling in poor health within the subsequent room – simply 24 hours earlier than he died. 

Heath, of no fastened handle, denies gross negligence manslaughter. 

She has admitted 4 counts of kid cruelty referring to neglect by failing to supply him with correct medical supervision and exposing him to heroin and crack cocaine. 

The trial continues. 

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