Girl, 2, who drowned in bin was failed by council, coroner finds

A two-year-old girl who drowned in a bin containing 9cm of water in a garden in east London was a victim of "gross failures" largely by social workers, a coroner has concluded.

- Diane Taylor

At the time of her death, Mazeedat Adeoye was being cared for in Dagenham by an acquaintance of her mother, Balikis Adeoye, who was in hospital with her baby son when he required urgent heart surgery.

Balikis had asked social workers at Newham council in east London if they could provide foster care for her daughter for 10 days during the hospital stay. She had come to the UK on a visitor visa in spring 2021 with Mazeedat to join her partner, but the relationship ended in May that year and she overstayed her visa because she had no means to return home.