‘Unlawful pollution killed girl’

A new inquest into the death of a nine-year-old girl will examine whether the state failed in its duty to protect her from the effects of unlawful air pollution. Ella Kissi-Debrah died in February 2013 after three years of seizures and 27 visits to hospital for asthma attacks. Her mother Rosamund successfully applied to the High Court to quash the original 2014 inquest into her death following the new evidence in Professor Holgate’s report. Ella lived 25 metres from the…