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Jayden-Jay Silvester is believed to have suffered a seizure in the water before he was found unresponsive at his home on New Year’s Eve. Mum Lisa Johnson and paramedics desperately tried to resuscitate the child but he died at hospital later that day.

Jayden-Jay’s inquest heard he had been out shopping with his mother and younger brother Oscar earlier that day to buy balloons for Oscar’s birthday on New Year’s Day.

They got home, and planned to go to the park but Jayden-Jay felt unwell and asked to have a bath.

Speaking at the inquest at Stoke-on-Trent & North Staffordshire Coroner’s Court, grief-stricken Lisa said: “I went to the bathroom, turned on both taps and put some body wash into it. The bath was half full. I put him in the bath myself.

“I made sure he was OK. At this point he was sat in the bath and I asked my sister-in-law to get some Calpol and put it in Coke as Jayden-Jay wouldn’t have it otherwise.

“He only took a sip and I was surprised because he’s not usually allowed Coke and I thought he would drink more.

“I went into the bedroom and continued wrapping presents.

“Between five and 10 minutes later I shouted Jayden-Jay to ask if he was OK and he said he was.

“I only had one present left to wrap but I’d run out of paper. His grandmother came up to bring the wrapping paper and I asked her to check on Jayden-Jay.

“I heard her scream and I ran into the bathroom, she pulled him from the bath and I started CPR and chest compressions.”

Jayden-Jay’s death came just weeks after his father Jason Silvester passed away, reports Stoke-on-Trent Live.

Recording a verdict of death by natural causes at Jayden-Jay’s inquest, area coroner for Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire Emma Serrano said: “On the balance of probabilities he had a seizure whilst in the bath and that caused him to go under the water and pass away.

“He had a history of seizures when he was younger and had a temperature.

“Sadly because he had a seizure whilst in the bath, he went in the water and he drowned.”

A post-mortem was carried out on Jayden-Jay, which provided a medical cause of death as drowning secondary to seizure.

A Staffordshire Police report read out at the inquest stated there was no water around the bath suggesting there hadn’t been a struggle. It added Jayden-Jay had the ability to get out of the bath if he had wished to.

The child’s inquest heard he had been born at just 24 weeks and spent 101 days on a neonatal unit. He remained on oxygen for 18 months and had a history of seizures.

But he lived a happy life and had many friends at Newstead Primary Academy, near the family home in Blurton, Stoke-on-Trent.

Mum-of-two Lisa praised his school at the inquest.

She said: “The teachers were extremely supportive, they had a good relationship and offered him one to one support.

“He was really coming on with his work and they allowed him to work in his own way and really encouraged him.

“He always did his best and went beyond expectations.”

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