A 12-year-old boy died in hospital after suffering from an allergic reaction his family's Christmas dinner which contained nuts, an inquest has heard.
Cason Hallwood, from Winsford, had been playing with friends when he began to have trouble breathing and collapsed at Wharton Recreation Ground - hours after he had Christmas dinner with his mother, three brothers and his grandparents last year.
Despite the schoolboy's mother Louise running to the park to administer an EpiPen, as well as the efforts of paramedics and doctors, Cason, who suffered from asthma and had a nut allergy, went into respiratory and then cardiac arrest.
He was taken to hospital, but died a short time later.
An inquest into Cason's death at Warrington Coroner's Court, sitting at Parr Hall due to Covid-19 restrictions, today heard that his grandfather, who cooked the meal, had 'forgotten' about his allergy and the glaze used on the family's gammon contained nuts.
Cason Hallwood, 12, from Winsford, died on Christmas Day last year after suffering from an allergic reaction
Giving evidence at the inquest to senior coroner for Cheshire Alan Moore, Cason's mother said the family had sat down to eat dinner at around 2.25pm before her son set off to the park with his friends.
She said: 'He was a bit of a livewire Cason, he didn't want to sit and watch telly. He asked if he could go to the park with his mates. I said ''ring me if you need me'' and with that he was gone
'About 20 minutes later my phone goes and Cason asked if I could send one of the boys with the inhalers. I didn't panic at this point and one of the twins said they'd go on Cason's bike.
'He was back in about 10 minutes and he said he seemed fine. My phone went again and this time I could tell that the inhalers hadn't worked.'
The schoolboy's mother described how she then ran to the park with the EpiPen they kept at Cason's grandparents house, which she said was out of date.
'I could tell straight away that he'd had something because his eyes were all puffy. The EpiPen I had on me was out of date. The one at my house was in date but the one at my mum and dad's wasn't,' she said.
'I was on the phone to the ambulance and asked permission to give it to him because it was out of date. I gave him the shot and it made no difference.'
Cason (second right) had eaten Christmas dinner with his mother Louise and three brothers (all pictured together) before heading out to play with his friends at Wharton Recreation Ground in Cheshire
In January this year hundreds of mourners lined the street for the funeral of the schoolboy
Mourners paid their respects as the schoolboy's coffin was taken through the streets by a white horse-drawn carriage
Louise said she was 'panicking' when the ambulance turned up at the park and said there were a few minutes of confusion when the vehicle went to one entrance and then to another before getting to Cason and transferring him into the ambulance.
She continued: 'Cason was saying ''I can't breathe, I'm going to pass out'' and I was screaming ''help him''. I then got out the back of the ambulance, I don't know why, I just couldn't take it anymore.'
Cason was taken to Leighton Hospital, with Louise and her mother Helen travelling there in the second ambulance.
'We were just put in a family room when we got there and within minutes they said they were still
