{"id":534788,"date":"2026-04-16T21:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534788\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:19:15","slug":"noah-sibanda-death-my-son-died-at-nursery-alone-scared-and-in-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534788\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Sibanda death: &#8216;My son died at nursery alone, scared, and in pain&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 15:17, emergency services were called, and some members of staff started doing CPR &#8211; with many seen to be in distress. Cookson was crying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 15:23, paramedics arrived, and Noah was taken to an ambulance at 15:52 before being taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the best efforts of hospital staff, he was pronounced dead at 16:15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement read out in court, Cookson said she &#8220;could not explain&#8221; why she behaved so harshly towards Noah that day and did not know why she had not checked on him, adding there was &#8220;no excuse&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told police she had learnt how to wrap and swaddle babies on the job, and had had no formal training in how to put children down to sleep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I cannot imagine the pain the family is going through,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I only hope that one day they hold it in their hearts to forgive me,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I never set out to harm anyone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What happened will haunt me for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her counsel, Rashad Mohammed KC, said: &#8220;She herself says she deserves to be punished.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At 15:17, emergency services were called, and some members of staff started doing CPR &#8211; with many seen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-534788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}