The family of a five-year-old boy from Deri who died after eating Ecoli-infected meat in school have made a plea for a second inquest into his death to be heard.
Representing the family of Mason Jones, Mark Powell QC called for the second inquest after a narrative verdict was reached by the coroner in 2010.
Mason Jones was one of around 160 people who fell ill during the E.coli outbreak in 2005.
He had eaten contaminated meat supplied by William John Tudor’s butchers in Bridgend.
Tudor, from Cowbridge, was jailed for a year in 2007 after admitting six charges relating to food safety, including supplying contaminated meat.
But, the BBC reported that Cardiff Civil Justice Centre heard today, October 6, that the Crown Prosecution Service admitted to Mason’s family that they were “wrong” not to press manslaughter charges against Tudor.
The family want the original inquest verdict quashed and a second inquest heard.
Recording his verdict at the original inquest five years ago, coroner David Bowen said: “I have agonised over a verdict of unlawful killing but despite substantial, some might say horrific, breaches of food hygiene regulations the evidence is not strong enough.
“There is little doubt Mason was owed a duty of care and a catalogue of failures to observe basic food hygiene breached that duty.
“But it is not enough for there to be a breach of the duty of care, however extensive and reprehensible that may be.”
The Civil Justice Centre heard a judgement whether to grant a second inquest will be handed down at a later date.