Ella was killed by pollution

A coroner has ruled that air pollution contributed to the death of a nine-year-old girl in the first case of its kind in the UK. Ella Kissi-Debrah died in February 2013 after three years of seizures and 27 visits to hospital for treatment to breathing problems. An inquest at Southwark Coroner’s Court heard of missed opportunities to introduce measures which would have protected city-dwellers from dangerous levels of air pollution. Ella’s mother Rosamund had successfully applied to the High Court…