A four-year-old boy was killed instantly when a heavy garden post collapsed on top of him, an inquest heard. Leopold Mercer was swinging on an iron gate in his garden with a friend after football training when tragedy struck at their home in Hanbury, Worcestershire on September 18. His parents, university professors Eva Frickel and Jason Mercer, heard the other child scream their son's name and they instantly knew something was wrong, Worcestershire Coroner's Court was told. The couple tried to resuscitate Leopold before emergency crews arrived. After 42 minutes of CPR, West Midlands Ambulance Service paramedics and Midlands Air Ambulance doctors declared Leopold dead at the scene. A post-mortem examination found Leopold died due to a traumatic head and neck injury. Dr Frickel described to the court how she'd just driven the two boys back from Sunday football training when they got out of the car and were hanging on an iron gate...
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