article_snippet: A watchdog has cleared officers over the case of a four-year-old boy starved to death by a four-year-old boy starved to death by his alcoholic mother alcoholic mother, despite years of police contact with the family.
article_snippet: The family, including Hamzah Khan's mother Amanda Hutton, 43, had extensive contact with police over a number of years, but today the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found that Hamzah's death was not something
article_snippet: A watchdog has cleared West Yorkshire Police ' over the case of four-year-old Hamzah Khan (pictured), who was starved to death by his alcoholic mother despite years of police contact with the family .
article_snippet: In a statement, the watchdog said: 'an investigation into West Yorkshire Police’s handling of concerns raised about Hamzah’s welfare concluded that Hamzah's death was not something West Yorkshire Police could have reasonably been expected to predict or prevent, and that it was the actions of a PCSO who made repeated and concerted attempts to speak to Ms Hutton that led to the discovery of Hamzah's body.'
article_snippet: Hutton's trial heard how Hamzah's father, Aftab Khan, raised concerns with officers after Hutton was arrested for attacking Hutton but detectives told the court these were investigated and no problems were found.
article_snippet: A serious case review in Hamzah's case concluded that Hamzah was 'invisible for almost a lifetime'.
article_snippet: Mr Khan wrote to Professor Nick Frost, who chairs the Bradford Safeguarding Children Board, saying: 'I have deep concerns over the Hamzah serious case review.
article_snippet: In particular, I am concerned that it fails to explain sufficiently clearly the actions taken or not taken by children's social care when problems in the Khan family were brought to the Khan family attention on a number of occasions.'
article_snippet: Hamzah's mummified remains were only discovered due to a rookie police community support officer's tenacious pursuit of a minor anti-social behaviour complaint because Hutton's knew something was wrong.
article_snippet: But Hutton's failed to co-operate with many children's services and the SCR found that Hamzah slipped below the radar and was invisible.
highlights_snippet: IPCC finds Hamzah's death was not something police 'could have reasonably been expected to predict or prevent' 