By Brendan Mcfadden For Mailonline
Published: 16:18 BST, 18 April 2019 | Updated: 16:27 BST, 18 April 2019
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A coroner has warned parents about sleeping with their babies after a six-day-old baby died while being cradled by his sleeping father.
Joseph Lee, known as Joey, had taken a good feed and was alert before falling asleep as his parents Amy Willis and Kevin Stanley watched TV, an inquest at Exeter Coroners Court heard.
Mr Stanley, from Moretonhampstead, Devon, later told police that he woke at 1am and went to get some ice cream when he realised his son had stopped breathing.
A coroner has warned parents about sleeping with their babies after six-day-old baby Joseph Lee died while being cradled by his sleeping father Kevin Stanley. Stock picture shows a baby sleeping on his father
The cause of the infant's death could not be determined following an autopsy.
But coroner Philip Spinney suggested that co-sleeping could be a contributing factor.
Home Office forensic pathologist Dr Deborah Cook told the inquest: 'Joey was found lifeless in father's arm having fallen asleep so it does raise possibility of overlying.
'There is nothing that can be done at post mortem to confirm that.
'There are known risk factors of co-sleeping on the sofa and parental use, in the broadest sense of drugs/ medication and alcohol, and possibly
