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Justice for Zane: MP attacks 'seriously flawed' inquest

27/9/2016

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Michael Powell for the Mail on Sunday 
PictureShadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham, right, pictured with Zane's parents Kye Gbangbola and Nicole Lawler, has since attacked the 'seriously flawed inquest'
  • Coroner ruled Zane Gbangbola, seven, killed by carbon monoxide
  • His parents Nicole and Kye were accused of leaving petrol pump running
  • But they believe he was poisoned by cyanide firemen detected in home
  • Shadow Home Secretary has attacked the 'seriously flawed' inquest
  • And experts say not enough carbon monoxide in his blood to kill him ​

It is hard to imagine that anything could deepen the agony of grieving parents after the sudden death of a young child.
But after losing their seven-year-old son Zane, Nicole and Kye Gbangbola learnt to their horror that they were being blamed for his death by the authorities for using a petrol pump emitting toxic carbon monoxide to clear water from their flooded home.
Yet the couple from Surrey insisted there was a very different explanation for the tragedy: the hydrogen cyanide firemen had detected inside the house.
For two years they battled to establish the truth – only to be left devastated when earlier this month a coroner found the pump was to blame.
But now the parents have been given new hope, after Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham launched an outspoken attack on the inquest – branding it ‘seriously flawed’. 
Accusing the coroner of failing to call key witnesses, Mr Burnham said there had been an obvious attempt to ‘discredit’ the grief-stricken couple, who deny using the pump.
He is now demanding an independent review of the case, similar to the one for which he long campaigned for for the Hillsborough families. 
‘This was a flawed inquest,’ Mr Burnham told The Mail on Sunday. ‘Justice has not been served in this case.’
Floodwater rose around the outside of the family’s riverside home in Chertsey, Surrey, during the storms that battered Britain in February 2014. 

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Zane's parents speak on the victoria derbyshire show 

19/9/2016

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"Our love for Zane keeps us going." emotional scenes outside woking coroner's court

8/9/2016

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Read Zane's parents statement in full:
“We are profoundly concerned by the conduct, the content and the outcome of Zane’s inquest.
“Our concern regarding the rejection of our application for legal aid, clear deficiencies in the administration of evidence and given the contested circumstances, the failure to have that evidence heard before a jury.
“This extends beyond our case and is a matter of public concern. We requested legal aid and an Article 2 inquest with a jury and both were rejected.

“Zane’s inquest was deficient legally and evidentially.

“We applied for full disclosure and this was rejected. The inquest satisfied neither our [interest] nor the public interest and at the discretion of the coroner, the primary concerns were not addressed and significant evidence not given to us - nor examined.

“We were also dependant on public donations to gain legal representation and present our case while the authorities had considerable resources. This was a significant failure in achieving equality of arms.

“As a consequence, we requested an independent panel of inquiry.
“The precedent being the Hillsborough independent panel to review all documentation from all interested parties, specify witnesses not called to this inquest and to make recommendations accordingly.

“Only when all of the available evidence is assessed by a panel with the collective expertise to provide a thorough and open examination of all of the available material and to make informed recommendations will we consider that the state has acted in the best interests and therefore in the public interest.

“We expect to be consulted on the membership of such a panel.

“We would like to take this opportunity to thank all members of the public who have supported us in our quest for justice for Zane.

“At the top of this was a deeply loved boy. A very special little boy. The world is a much poorer place without Zane.

“Our love for Zane keeps us going and while we have breath in our bodies, we fight to expose the inconvenient truth.”

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