A GRIEVING family are devastated that they will never know why their ‘little angel’ died.

At an inquest into the death of their six-month-old daughter Sara, Sonia and Mohammed Hussain were told it will always remain a mystery.

The coroner heard that Mr Hussain found their baby motionless beside him at their home in Franklin Street, Wellfield, when he woke on 22 April this year.

A post mortem examination failed to find the cause of their daughter’s sudden death.

They were told by pathologist Melanie Newbold: "Babies sometimes do die suddenly and unexpectedly in the first year of life."

Mrs Hussain told the inquest that her daughter slept in a moses basket in their bedroom and sometimes liked to cuddle with Mr and Mrs Hussain in their bed.

On the morning that Sara died Mrs Hussain, a 27-year-old court manager, had left her lying in bed with her sleeping husband.

She took their seven-year-old son, Hamzah, to school and left their eight-year-old daughter Alisha at home because she was feeling poorly.

At 11.30am she received a phone call at work from Alisha, who said there was blood coming from Sara’s mouth.

She asked her husband to check the baby and he said ‘she’s fine’. But a minute later he said ‘she’s not breathing’.

The inquest heard Sara had been getting up ‘a bit more often than usual’ and was ‘a bit restless’.

Mr Hussain had given the baby a 2am feed and he had given medicine to their eldest daughter, who had complained of feeling ill in the early hours of the morning.

He remembers Alisha waking him to hand him the phone to speak to his wife and he had turned to find Sara, who appeared to be sleeping.

He said: "I looked again and I found that she wasn’t breathing. I took hold of her, ran downstairs out on the front drive, rubbing her back ... I don’t know what I was doing. There was no sign of life."

Coroner Simon Nelson, recording an open verdict, told the parents: "I can understand how disappointed and upset you are at the inability of both this inquiry and Dr Newbold to provide you with the answers that you seek.

"It is unsatisfactory for me to have to conclude with an open verdict because it begs more questions, but I can’t, in all circumstances, go any further."

Mrs Hussain, who is expecting their fourth child in December, said afterwards: "It would have been Sara’s birthday this month. We talk about her every day. She was like a little angel and we miss her so much. We are excited about the arrival of the new baby but scared as well. I keep thinking ‘what if it happens again?"