Noah Sibanda died after he was physically restrained while being put to sleep at Fairytales Day Nursery in Dudley
A nursery worker has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and the nursery fined £240,000 after a 14-month-old boy was restrained and died in their care.
Noah Sibanda died after he was physically restrained face-down with a blanket over his head while being put to sleep at the Fairytales Day Nursery in Dudley in December 2022. He was left unchecked for two hours before he was found unresponsive. He was pronounced dead an hour later in hospital.
The nursery worker Kimberley Cookson, 23, was sentenced at Wolverhampton crown court on Friday to three years and four months in prison after admitting gross negligence manslaughter in relation to her actions in trying to make Noah fall asleep.
Justice Choudhury, the judge, told Cookson it was “blind luck” that there had been no other deaths at the nursery before Noah, and that she would serve up to 40% of her sentence in custody and the remainder on licence.
