A seven-month-old baby choked to death in a cot sold by a businessman who copied designs off the internet, a court heard on Monday.

Oscar Abbey was found by his parents, caught in the side of his bed at their home in York.

During the course of the night on November 3 2016, he "wriggled his body" between gaps in the side of the cot which were not wide enough for his head to fit through, prosecutor John Elvidge QC told Leeds Crown Court.

He added that he died from positional asphyxia, saying : "In effect, he choked to death. He was starved of oxygen."

Craig Williams, the owner of the company which sold the bed to Charlie and Shannon Abbey, went on trial accused of gross negligence manslaughter.

Mr Elvidge told the jury: "He died because the cot bed bought by his parents from the defendant's company was designed and constructed without any care or thought for the safety of the child who was sleeping in it.

"Oscar died, say the prosecution, because of the defendant's gross negligence."