Pret ‘took two years to say sorry for girl’s death’

PRET A Manger did not send a letter of condolence to the family of a girl killed by one of its baguettes until two years after her death.

The parents of Natasha EdnanLaperouse, 15, who died in 2016 after a fatal reaction to sesame seeds, blasted the food giant for doing “too little, too late”.

Her grieving mum Tanya and father Nadim said: “There was no proper internal investigation into our daughter’s death. We did not even get a letter from the chief executive until last month.”

The chain’s food labelling was called inadequate by the coroner at an inquest last week. Natasha, of Fulham, West London, fell ill on a flight to France in 2016 after buying the baguette at Heathrow Airport.

She was unaware the bread contained sesame seeds – to which she was highly allergic.