AN 11-month-old baby boy found dead by his mother had been suffering from pneumonia, an inquest heard.

Luke Oliver Hindle, of Padgate Place, Burnley, stopped breathing on a bed at a friend's house, in Penistone Street on April 4 this year.

He was pronounced dead at Burnley General Hospital.

An inquest heard that Luke and his parents, Rebecca Hindle and Jamie Holding, had lived at various addresses but at the time of his death they had been staying at Rebecca's mother's house, in Padgate Place, where Luke had his own bedroom.

On Friday, April 4, Rebecca took Luke out to a friend's house.

She put him to bed at 7pm and checked on him at regular intervals but the last time she went to look in on him he was not responding.

He had moved his position on the bed and Rebecca realised something was wrong and called for help.

Pathologist Dr Melanie Newbold, from the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Pendlebury, described Luke as a 'perfectly normal little boy' but said he had been suffering from the early stages of bronchilitis.

She put the cause of death down to natural causes due to the pneumonia infection.

Deputy coroner Mark Williams said: "This was a tragic case but there is no criticism of anyone. It was purely death through natural causes."