Ella Kissi-Debrah lived near one of the capital’s most polluted roads before her death in 2013 PRESS ASSOCIATIONThe mother of a nine-year-old girl who died of an asthma attack has accused Boris Johnson of failing to protect her from illegal levels of air pollution when he was mayor of London. The allegation is made in documents submitted to a coroner preparing for a new inquest into the death of Ella Kissi-Debrah, who lived near one of London’s most polluted roads and was admitted to hospital 28 times for asthma attacks in the three years before her death in 2013. Professor Stephen Holgate, an expert on air pollution, found last year that Ella’s hospital admissions coincided with high levels of nitrogen dioxide and particulate pollution near her home, which was 25 yards from the South Circular road in Hither Green, southeast London.

Source: The Times December 17, 2019 17:03 UTC