The mother of a baby who died with an underlying heart condition felt her son was "not safe" in their Kent hospital as "no-one" took her concerns seriously, an inquest has heard.

Tommy Kneebone was seven months old when he died in the early hours of January 21 2023, at Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Pembury.

He had been presented by his mother to the GP and A&E in Kent multiple times in the months prior to his death without his underlying cardiomyopathy being identified.

Shanice Kneebone told Kent and Medway Coroner's Court in Maidstone that she and her partner had since undergone tests which found "nothing to suggest a genetic cardiac problem" that they might have passed on to their son.

Tommy's parents first noticed he had a cough when they returned from a holiday abroad in October 2022

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