Baby suffocates to death while sleeping in between his parents

Parents who slept with their six-week-old baby in the same bed awoke to find him dead.

Paul and Emily Pearson, of Bradford, moved Noah from his cot into their bed after they returned from a night out on May 31 this year, an inquest at Bradford Coroners Court heard.

The parents were awoken by a ringing phone and they found Noah unresponsive.

When the couple woke up at about 8.50am, they found blood coming out from Noah’s nostrils. He was immediately taken to the Bradford Royal hospital where test showed he died from Sudden Infant Death syndrome after being deprived of oxygen.

At an inquest, a doctor warned of the dangers of parents sleeping with their babies as a coroner said a contributory factor in Noah’s death on May 31 was “co-sleeping and parental alcohol consumption”.