Father's agony as he tells 検死 how his one-year-old daughter 'choked to death on jelly cube during playtime at nursery'

• Tiya Chauhan stopped breathing during play 開会／開廷／会期 at Dicky Birds nursery
  
• 出来事/事件 happened in August 2012 at centre in Wimbledon, south London
  
• Her father Chetan wept as he told 検死 she was already a 'character'

By Dan Bloom

Published: 05:57 BST, 8 July 2014 | Updated: 10:03 BST, 8 July 2014

Death: Tiya Chauhan was 22 months old when she stopped breathing during a play 開会／開廷／会期 at a nursery

A 22-month-old girl choked to death on a raw jelly cube during a '解放する／自由な-flow' play 開会／開廷／会期 at a nursery, an 検死 has been told.

Tiya Chauhan fell unconscious and stopped breathing after 存在 許すd to はう 自由に between three rooms at the Dicky Birds nursery in Wimbledon, south London.

Yesterday her father Chetan Chauhan, 37, wept as he told an 検死 his daughter was 'smiling and happy' on the last day he saw her alive.

Mr Chauhan, an IT 労働者, told an 検死 陪審／陪審員団 at London's 王室の 法廷，裁判所s of 司法（官） his daughter was a ‘character’ who was ‘already forming her own personality’.

She had loved going to nursery a nd was ‘smiling and happy’ on the day he dropped her off for the last time, he said.

‘It was a Wednesday, she was 井戸／弁護士席,’ he said. ‘She was a perfectly happy child. She was smiling and やめる happy that day, everything was 罰金.’

Staff at the nursery, a family-owned 商売／仕事 with nurseries in Wimbledon, Raynes Park, New Malden and Surbiton in London, dialled 999 after the 出来事/事件 on the morning of August 23, 2012.

The 検死 heard paramedics 設立する Tiya not breathing and 除去するd a piece of ‘jelly-like 実体’ from her 航空路.

She was taken by 救急車 to St George’s Hospital, Tooting, but died later the same day.

Mr Chauhan's wife Dipta, 36, wept in the public gallery as he told the 陪審／陪審員団 about their young daughter and showed a picture of her weeks before her death.

‘Tiya was a character,’ Mr Chauhan said. ‘I remember her at home playing with her brother with their toys.

‘She was loud. She was forming her personality, she would pull her brother off her toys and 押し進める him away, but she was やめる affectionate with her brother and with us.

‘Tiya was loved by everybody. She was an 感染性の child. She would go up to anybody, she wasn’t afraid of anything.’

Mr and Mrs Chauhan, who have been married 11 years and have three other children, did careful 研究 before choosing a nursery for Tiya and her older brother, the 検死 heard.

悲劇: The toddler's father Chetan Chauhan, pictured leaving the 王室の 法廷，裁判所s of 司法（官） in London, wept as he gave 証拠 to the 検死 陪審／陪審員団. He said his daughter was a 'character' forming her own personality

The couple, who live nearby, were happy with the care when Tiya started at Dicky Birds two days a week in October 2011, Mr Chauhan said.

But he was 狼狽d when he collected his tiny daughter from day care one afternoon with teeth 示すs on her cheek in January 2012, and she was bitten again in February.

He said: ‘At the time my wife felt maybe she should take Tiya out of nursery.’

解任するing the 致命的な 出来事/事件, nursery room leader Ashleigh Brooks told the 検死 jelly had been used as a sensory play activity at the nursery 'for years' but that it was 'hardly ever out'.?

'We either had cubes put out so it's sticky, touchy-feely sort of thing or melted,' she said. 'It's always in the cupboard.'

She said that there had been 'a few 問題／発行するs' during '解放する／自由な flow play' in the past because it was harder to 監督する the children.?

'Some days it did work but other times it was used a little too much,' Ms Brooks said.?

But she 追加するd the children 'really loved the chance to 調査する' and play with different activities.?

Moments before the 出来事/事件, said staff member Deborah Maloney: 'The jelly was in a water tray and Tiya was standing there with another little girl... They were both playing and I sort of waved and gave them a big smile.?

'They were playing like there wasn't a problem.'

Nursery practitioner Olivia Aling 設立する the toddler lying 直面する 負かす／撃墜する on the ground and carried out first 援助（する） with 副 経営者／支配人 Carna Poci, she said.?

'I saw Tiya lying 直面する 負かす／撃墜する on the 床に打ち倒す with her 長，率いる to one 味方する,' Ms Aling said. 'I noticed she had 血 and 泡，激怒すること around her mouth and a small 量 of 血 on the 床に打ち倒す around her mouth.?

'I went straight over and 選ぶd her up off the 床に打ち倒す. I rolled her に向かって me so that her 長，率いる was in my 肘. Carna took her from me and we called her 指名する but no 返答.'

'I held Tiya's 長，率いる while Carna started CPR. The 救急車 service was directing us as to what to do. I held Tiya's 長，率いる while she did breaths and compressions on her chest.'

The 検死 continues today.

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