AN INQUEST was due to open today into the death of a seven-year-old girl who died after allegedly being starved at her Birmingham home.
Khyra Ishaq was pronounced dead after being taken to hospital from her mother's home in Leyton Road, Handsworth, in the early hours of May 17.
Her mother Angela Gordon, 33, and her partner Junaid Abuhamza, 29, both appeared in court via videolink on May 28, accused of "causing or allowing" her death.
The pair, who lived together with Khyra and her siblings, appeared at Birmingham Crown Court charged with the offence contrary to section five of the 2004 Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act. They are formally accused of committing the offence between May 9 and the date of Khyra's death, May 17.
