Five staff suspended over pupil’s asthma death

FIVE members of staff were yesterday suspended at a school that was criticised in an inquest after the death of an 11-year-old boy who suffered an asthma attack in class.

Sam Linton died after neglect at Offerton High School, in Stockport, “significantly contributed” to his death, the inquest jury ruled. He was made to sit in a corridor struggling to breathe, no ambulance was called and by the time his mother was summoned to the school his lips were turning blue.

The boy died a few hours later in hospital on December 4, 2007.