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'Window could have been made safer' before boy, 5, plunged 15 storeys to death

The Mirror UK News · 19 August 2026 at 15:54

'Window could have been made safer' before boy, 5, plunged 15 storeys to death

Aalim Ahmed, five, died instantly after he fell from a 15th-floor kitchen window at a residential block in Plaistow, east London, on May 16 2024

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'Window could have been made safer' before boy, 5, plunged 15 storeys to death

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