Nursery World - Stockport nursery tragedy: An 'unsafe sleeping environment' responsible for baby's death

A jury has been told that unsafe sleep arrangements at nursery were the likely cause of nine-month-old Genevieve Meehan's death.

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In the second week of the trial at Manchester Crown Court, the jury has heard from pathologist Dr Philip Lumb, who carried out the post-mortem examination of nine-month-old Genevieve Meehan, who died on 9 May 2022.

He told the court her sleeping arrangements were, in his opinion, ‘responsible for her death’.

Manchester Crown Court previously heard how Genevieve was strapped on to a beanbag on her front to sleep for 90 minutes while in the care of Tiny Toes Nursery in Cheadle Hulme.

Dr Lumb said Genevieve died from a combination of ‘asphyxiation and the pathophysiological stress’ of the sleeping environment.

The jury heard it would have been a ‘struggle’ for the nine-month-old to breathe in the position she was placed in.

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