The British Government announced this Thursday that it will compensate the mother of a nine-year-old girl who died from a asthma attack related to excessive environmental pollution, in a case that shocked the United Kingdom.
The authorities, who said they “very regret the loss” of the minor, They reached an out-of-court agreement with the little girl’s mother Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, who died in 2013, for an undisclosed amount, before the case came to court.
Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, who lived in south-east London, suffered a fatal asthma attack in February 2013 after being exposed to excessive air pollution.
The girl, who lived 25 meters from a busy road, became the first person to have air pollution listed as a cause of death in an official investigation.
The mother, Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, had undertaken a long battle for the authorities to recognize the influence of pollution on her daughter’s death.
The mother had presented a demand to the Ministries of the Environment, Transport and Health, to obtain compensation for the “illness and premature death” of his daughter.
Thus, the three ministries reached an agreement before the case went to trial at the High Court in London.
The three Government departments also sent a note to the mother to state that The Government felt its loss and express his condolences to her, Ella’s siblings and everyone who knew her.
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