London woman who killed neighbour, 11, with bedbug poison is sentenced

A woman has been given a suspended sentence for accidentally killing her neighbour, a child on her 11th birthday, with poisonous gas she brought from Italy to exterminate bedbugs in her flat in London.

Jesmin Akter, 34, had illegally imported aluminium phosphide without a licence to deal with an infestation in her flat in Tower Hamlets, east London.

She failed to read the packaging before distributing a deadly amount around the property and…