A healthy newborn had died in her crib in "dirty and dishevelled" home that smelt of cannabis strongly at 17 days old.

Little Holly-Mae Heys had no medical issues but she was found unresponsive in her Moses basket shortly after her father rolled up a cannabis joint at breakfast time.

Richard Heys, her father told the inquest how desperately he tried to revive the tot after discovering that she wasn't breathing.

But she had been pronounced dead in hospital despite attempts to revive her with tests showing the cause of death as ''unascertained.''

The reports said that a paramedic called to Holly Mae's family home in Accrington, Lancs, recalled the house being in a ''poor state from the outside'' adding there was a ''strong smell of cannabis and the house appeared dirty and dishevelled.''

A paediatric pathologist who had examined the youngster's body also believed that the baby may have been put to bed in a "potentially unsafe sleeping environment" with clothes and other items inside the Moses basket.

The tragedy on February 3rd happened less than three weeks after Holly was born at 38 weeks by emergency caesarean.

She was bottle fed and had be taken home by parents Bethany Rowley, 23 years old, and 39 year old Heys, a former fire service worker.

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By Prakriti Neogi