Boy, 4, died after swallowing magnets - inquest

The death of a four-year-old boy after he swallowed magnets was accidental, a coroner has concluded.

Bohuslav Martin Curi died at the Royal Stoke University Hospital on 25 August as a result of a small bowel perforation that led to acute peritonitis and sepsis.

Coroner Daniel Howe told the court, at Swann Hose in Stoke-on-Trent, this had been caused when Bohuslav accidentally swallowed two magnets after they fell off a fridge door at the family home, in Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent.

The inquest into Bohuslav's death had been opened on 23 September and concluded on 29 January.

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