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Tests are finally to be carried out on a former landfill site close to the home of a schoolboy who died from inhaling toxic fumes during heavy flooding.
The local authority has ordered an investigation after new official documents revealed by The Mail on Sunday showed that lethal hydrogen cyanide gas was detected in the home of Zane Gbangbola.
A coroner ruled in 2016 that the seven-year-old had been poisoned by carbon monoxide from a petrol-powered pump used to clear floodwater, but his parents have always maintained the cause was cyanide gas, which seeped into their home during flooding two years earlier.
The local authority has ordered an investigation after new official documents revealed by The Mail on Sunday showed that lethal hydrogen cyanide gas was detected in the home of Zane Gbangbola
Now Spelthorne Borough Council’s environment and sustainability committee has voted to test the land in Chertsey, Surrey, a former unregulated dumping ground.
Committee chairman Ian Beardsmore said
