A 14-year-old boy who died following an incident at Lewis Capaldi’s former college handed away from pure causes, police have confirmed.
Hamdan Aslam was attending St Kentigern’s Academy in Blackburn, West Lothian on Tuesday, 6 June when police have been known as. He was taken by ambulance to hospital, however died a short while later.
A autopsy examination has confirmed that Hamdan died from pure causes. Nonetheless, experiences earlier this week had advised the boy had died “in a chokehold”, with social media speculating the incident was tied to an internet problem referred to as the “faucet out” recreation.
However Hamdan’s household have now stated that “there is no such thing as a one responsible for his loss”, and revealed he had a pre-existing coronary heart situation that had beforehand been undetected.
As with all sudden demise, a report has been despatched to the Procurator Fiscal, with Police Scotland describing the incident as “deeply” affecting “everybody on the college.”
“Our household is left devastated by the sudden and tragic lack of our lovely boy Hamdan who introduced a lot pleasure to our lives”, a household assertion issued via their solicitor Aamer Anwar stated.
“We wish to guarantee Hamdan’s mates and our group that this was a wholly pure demise and couldn’t have been predicted.
“A full police investigation is being carried out, however we are able to affirm that Hamdan had a pre-existing coronary heart situation that had by no means been detected, and sadly his demise may have occurred at any time.
“There isn’t any one responsible for his loss, it was God’s will,” the household continued. “We all know that Hamdan’s loss is being deeply felt by his mates and lecturers and we might urge those that have engaged in rumours on social media to cease, it’s untruthful and compounding our grief.
“Please take down the posts, the working commentary is unhelpful to the kids, lecturers and our household who’ve been left deeply traumatised and devastated.
“We all know that Hamdan’s lecturers and mates did all the things attainable to save lots of his life and for that our household will for ever be grateful to them.”
Chief Inspector Jocelyn O’Connor stated: “This has been a tragic incident which has deeply affected everybody on the college.
“Our ideas stay with Hamdan’s household and mates at this very tough time and we’re offering our help to them. They’ve requested privateness and I’d ask their needs are revered.”