Air pollution ‘contributed to Ella’s death’

An environmental expert told an inquest today (mon) air pollution levels outside the home of a nine-year-old girl, who died after an asthma attack, ‘consistently exceeded’ legal limits. Ella Kissi-Debrah died in February 2013 after three years of seizures and 27 visits to hospital for treatment to breathing problems. Her mother Rosamund successfully applied to the High Court to quash the original 2014 inquest into her death following new evidence in Professor Stephen Holgate’s report. Ella lived 25 metres from…