Four years on, parents still await inquest into newborn's hospital death

A four-day-old infant died from preventable oxygen deprivation during birth; parents unable to scatter ashes or obtain death certificate for four years, causing prolonged psychological trauma and affecting their ability to parent their subsequent child.

In the quiet aftermath of a birth that became a death, Kianty and Conor Simpson have spent four years suspended between grief and bureaucracy — unable to bury their son Jacob, unable to receive a death certificate, unable to learn why he died. A Welsh hospital admitted negligence, investigators identified clinical failings, yet the machinery of accountability moved so slowly that a family was left holding ashes they could not scatter. Only when journalists began asking questions did the coroner's office acknowledge the delay and schedule a hearing — a reminder that institutional systems, howev

Four years on, parents still await inquest into newborn's hospital death

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