The British Government introduced this Thursday that it will compensate the mother of a nine-year-old girl who died from a asthma assault associated to extreme environmental pollution, in a case that shocked the United Kingdom.
The authorities, who stated they “very remorse the loss” of the minor, They reached an out-of-court settlement with the little girl’s mother Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, who died in 2013, for an undisclosed quantity, earlier than the case got here to court docket.
Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, who lived in south-east London, suffered a deadly asthma assault in February 2013 after being uncovered to extreme air pollution.
The girl, who lived 25 meters from a busy street, turned the first particular person to have air pollution listed as a trigger of demise in an official investigation.
The mother, Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, had undertaken a lengthy battle for the authorities to acknowledge the affect of pollution on her daughter’s demise.
The mother had offered a demand to the Ministries of the Environment, Transport and Health, to get hold of compensation for the “sickness and untimely demise” of his daughter.
Thus, the three ministries reached an settlement earlier than the case went to trial at the High Court in London.
The three Government departments additionally despatched a notice to the mother to state that The Government felt its loss and categorical his condolences to her, Ella’s siblings and everybody who knew her.