A woman has been given a suspended sentence for accidentally killing her neighbour Fatiha Sabrin on her 11th birthday. The woman used aluminium phosphide tablets she had illegally brought from Italy to get rid of the bedbug infestation in her flat. The woman hadn't read the packaging instructions fully, and was unaware that when the tablets got in contact with moisture they create the poisonous gas phosphine, which then leaked into the neighbour's home, while she and her family stayed away for 24 hours.
On Thursday July 18, the woman was sentenced to two years in jail suspended for two years plus 150 hours of unpaid work.
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If someone is to use something that is meant to kill something, even if it's insects, they have better read the instructions very carefully how to handle it, so that it doesn't cause damage to others.
The same poisonous gas killed a four-year-old girl and poisoned her parents and sibling in Sweden in October 2023, the poisoning most likely caused by one of their neighbours having used the tablets. It took the police about four months to find out what had caused the poisoning, as phosphine poisoning is difficult to detect.
On Thursday July 18, the woman was sentenced to two years in jail suspended for two years plus 150 hours of unpaid work.
Girl, 11, died on her birthday after London neighbour used bedbug poison
Jesmin Akter left aluminium phosphide around Tower Hamlets flat to deal with infestation, killing Fatiha Sabrin
If someone is to use something that is meant to kill something, even if it's insects, they have better read the instructions very carefully how to handle it, so that it doesn't cause damage to others.
The same poisonous gas killed a four-year-old girl and poisoned her parents and sibling in Sweden in October 2023, the poisoning most likely caused by one of their neighbours having used the tablets. It took the police about four months to find out what had caused the poisoning, as phosphine poisoning is difficult to detect.
