Babies ‘just go to sleep and don’t take the next breath’

BABIES who are victims of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome just go to sleep and don’t take the next breath, assistant State pathologist Dr Margot Bolster told an inquest, in Tralee, yesterday.

The parents of 18-month-old Jack Howarth told of how they found him dead in his cot at their home on the morning of February 1 last.

Timothy Howarth, of Long Acre, Annagh Lawn, Tralee, said goodnight to Jack before putting him to bed at 11pm, the night before.