, which manages the estate. Mr Abdullah told coroner Joanne Kearsley he had never been told to specifically use anti-mould paint, and had not experienced damp and mould before when it first appeared, two years after his arrival in the UK from Sudan. Damp and mould inside the home of Awaab Ishak days after his death ( MEN Media) The court heard the mould had returned by autumn 2018 in the kitchen and bathroom, before Awaab's premature birth in December 2018. Mr Abdullah complained about the damp and mould, and first applied for a new home for his family in May 2019, before later making further bids for housing. One email sent by Mr Abdullah in 2020 while his wife Aisha Amin was pregnant with their second child, read out in court, said: "Kitchen... damp is really bad... I have a kid and my wife, she pregnant. I need further movement please." Awaab Ishak was just two years old ( MEN Media) He died days after his second birthday ( MEN Media) Awaab was reported to have a history of blocked nose and coughing on several occasions in his young life. Ms Amin said Awaab was prescribed an inhaler for his nose in autumn 2020, and he had been struggling to breathe through his nose. She described telling health visitors about the damp and mould in November){kind=link}
Awaab Ishak died days after his second birthday. He had lived at the flat on the Freehold estate in Rochdale all his life despite his families pleas to their landlord about mould
Shocking images from inside the home of little Awaab Ishak days after the toddler’s death have been released during his inquest.
The tot died just days after his second birthday, having lived in the Ilminster block on the Freehold estate, in Rochdale.
Rochdale Coroners’ Court heard yesterday that Awaab’s father Faisal Abdullah had first reported mould in his kitchen in autumn 2017 – more than a year before his son was born.
The inquest heard he was told to ‘paint over it’ by a member of staff at Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH), which manages the estate.