Safety law plea after toddler strangled with window blind

A MOTHER whose daughter became entangled in the loop of a window blind and died days before her second birthday called for legislation to improve the safety of such products yesterday.

Speaking at an inquest into the death of her daughter, Madeleine, Linda Whitehead said cords and chains were lethal and should be modified.

The 37-year-old had left Madeleine and her older brother, William, watching television in the conservatory at the family home in Holland Close, Lichfield, Staffs, while she got breakfast ready.