A little boy starve to death he was locked in a flat clinging to his mother's dead body for TWO WEEKS... and not a single neighbour or relative noticed.
Esther Eketi-Mulo, 24, and son Chadrack, four, were found dead last November in a flat on Trelawney Estate in Hackney, east London, after two weeks
Supposing there were ever any doubts that Esther Eketi-Mulo and her young son were loved, then the heart-rending scenes at their joint funeral banished them.
Hundreds of mourners stood inside the chapel at Manor Park Cemetery in East London to await the arrival of 24-year-old Esther and four-year-old Chadrack last November.
Their coffins, one white and heartbreakingly smaller than the other, were surrounded by a sea of flowers, including two giant floral displays fashioned into the words ‘sister’ and ‘nephew’.
Old school friends wore T-shirts bearing photographs of Esther’s face with her name printed beneath them. Chadrack’s headmistress placed a flower on to his coffin as it was lowered into the ground on top of his mother’s. But amid all the grief there were haunting questions, too, about the horrific circumstances surrounding the pair’s deaths.
For while Esther died suddenly after suffering an epileptic fit at her council flat in Hackney last October, young Chadrack, who had autism, was mute and therefore unable to raise the alarm, died of starvation two weeks later.
He was eventually found clinging to his mother’s decomposing body after a family member raised the alarm.
This deeply disturbing case has raised serious questions about how on earth a child could have starved to death in Britain in 2017 without anyone noticing.
For in a society where there are more safeguards than ever regarding the protection of vulnerable children, how could a school-age boy with such disabilites have passed under the radar of so many institutions for quite so long — and with such devastating consequences?
For while staff at Chadrack’s school, Morningside Primary in Hackney, visited the tower block where he lived with his mother to find out the cause of his absence — Chadrack had been missing from school since the end of September — they were unable to get a response via the downstairs intercom and, after two visits, eventually gave up.
Hundreds of mourners stood inside the chapel at Manor Park Cemetery in East London to await the arrival of 24-year-old Esther and four-year-old Chadrack last November.
Their coffins, one white and heartbreakingly smaller than the other, were surrounded by a sea of flowers, including two giant floral displays fashioned into the words ‘sister’ and ‘nephew’.
Old school friends wore T-shirts bearing photographs of Esther’s face with her name printed beneath them. Chadrack’s headmistress placed a flower on to his coffin as it was lowered into the ground on top of his mother’s. But amid all the grief there were haunting questions, too, about the horrific circumstances surrounding the pair’s deaths.
For while Esther died suddenly after suffering an epileptic fit at her council flat in Hackney last October, young Chadrack, who had autism, was mute and therefore unable to raise the alarm, died of starvation two weeks later.
He was eventually found clinging to his mother’s decomposing body after a family member raised the alarm.
This deeply disturbing case has raised serious questions about how on earth a child could have starved to death in Britain in 2017 without anyone noticing.
For in a society where there are more safeguards than ever regarding the protection of vulnerable children, how could a school-age boy with such disabilites have passed under the radar of so many institutions for quite so long — and with such devastating consequences?
For while staff at Chadrack’s school, Morningside Primary in Hackney, visited the tower block where he lived with his mother to find out the cause of his absence — Chadrack had been missing from school since the end of September — they were unable to get a response via the downstairs intercom and, after two visits, eventually gave up.
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