Our eight-week-old son died without seeing his first Xmas after medics sent him home from hospital twice with a LEAFLET

AN eight-week-old toddler has died after he was sent home twice from hospital with just a leaflet in the days before his death.

Dad Liam Hayes, 21, and mum Anya, 19, said their newborn son Tommy was rushed to Torbay Hospital by medics twice before he died at home on November 21, having failed to wake up from his morning nap.

Devastated Liam, who works for Screwfix in Torquay, told : "He was my first born son and I cannot even spend that first Christmas with him.

"He was taken in to hospital by paramedics twice and the hospital sent him home both times when he fell asleep."

Liam added: "They should have kept him in longer and woken him up. He wasn't given any medication, or an inhaler or oxygen - all we had was just a leaflet."

The couple live in a flat near to The Dolphin pub in St Marychurch, Devon, and nurse Hayley Baker, whose husband runs the pub, was one of the first people on the scene.

She and Anya’s mum attempted to give CPR to the toddler before the paramedics arrived.

Mrs Baker said: "The paramedics tried for a very long time. It was the most brutal, horrible situation."

Anya found Tommy asleep in his crib at 11.30am on Sunday morning.

Liam said the police had been asking them endless questions in the search for answers but he added they had “not heard anything from the hospital or had an apology.”