A ONE-year-old boy has died after a concrete wall collapsed on top of him.
Roan Butcher was tragically killed after suffering a brain injury when visiting the lambs on his granddad’s land in Mildenhall, West Suffolk.
The tot’s dad, Zach Butcher, had picked him up from nursery on April 5 this year before heading over to see the animals kept at the family home.
Suffolk Coroners Court heard the lambs at the time were penned in a barn surrounded by three-foot concrete walls.
Zach had then carried Roan and lifted him into the pen before stepping over the wall himself.
The wall then became dislodged before collapsing outwards on top of Roan.
After a frantic call to 999, Roan’s dad started driving him to hospital where he suffered a cardiac arrest on the way.
Paramedics then raced to where the youngster was before blue-lighting him to A&E.
Sadly, his brain injury was irreversible and Roan died shortly after.
Peter Stickley, a former Health and Safety Executive inspector, told the inquest only a small amount of force would have caused the wall to collapse.
However, the family could not have done anything to avoid the tragedy, it was said.
Mr Stickley said: “You wouldn’t know the wall would fail until you applied the right force at the right location.
“You might rock the wall at the top and think, that’s not sturdy – but you would only know that at the very last minute.”
Roan’s death was recorded as an accident.
