{"id":9182,"date":"2018-10-24T14:45:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T14:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=9182"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:45:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T14:45:38","slug":"seven-month-old-baby-choked-to-death-in-cot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/seven-month-old-baby-choked-to-death-in-cot\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven-month-old baby &#8220;choked to death&#8221; in cot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The owner of a premium cot company has admitted a health and safety failing after a seven-month-old baby &#8220;choked to death&#8221; in a cot bed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Abbey, 24, said in he found his son trapped face-down in the front of the cot. &#8220;It looked like he&#8217;d tried to crawl out backwards but his head was stuck,&#8221; he said. Mrs Abbey also described how she woke up and heard her husband &#8220;shouting and screaming: &#8216;He&#8217;s not breathing&#8217;. &#8220;I ran to the landing and Charlie was holding Oscar in both arms,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Elvidge told the court Playtime Beds Ltd had received a complaint in March 2016 from a customer saying the bed she bought did not meet standards. But Williams told the customer: &#8220;I have been in touch with trading standards and they are happy with my products,&#8221; the prosecutor said. Mr Elvidge claims the trading standards office had no record of contact from the Williams<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0Williams continued to make beds and did not alter his designs even after the childs death.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of a premium cot company has admitted a health and safety failing after a seven-month-old baby &#8220;choked to death&#8221; in a cot bed. Mr Abbey, 24, said in he found his son trapped face-down in the front of the cot. &#8220;It looked like he&#8217;d tried to crawl out backwards but his head was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9183,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions\/9183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}