A two-year-old child was found dead after his father died of a heart attack. Skegness, Lincolnshire, UK. They were last seen two weeks before the bodies were found. Bronson Battersby is reported to have died of starvation.
According to the newspaper MirrorThe child’s father, Kenneth, died a few days after Christmas. After this, the boy had no access to food or water. The bodies were found on January 9.
Bronson was accompanied by social services officers who responded to the scene on January 2. However, no one opened the door for them. They returned to the site two days later and received no response. The police were contacted, but only five days later they were able to enter the house.
“He was left alone in the dark, he must have been terrified and confused,” a family friend told the newspaper. Sun.
The boy’s mother, Sarah, spoke about this. Mirror that when he went to identify the body, he was unable to restrain Bronson because “the body was very fragile.”
Two deaths are under investigation.