Benn Curran-Nicholls, 14, was rushed to Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital after he collapsed due to ingesting leaves and berries from a yew tree in Fletcher Moss Park, Manchester.

A post-mortem concluded Benn suffered 'refractory cardiogenic shock', reports the M.E.N. The tragedy has led coroner Andrew Bridgman to issue a report about the dangers of eating yew tree berries.

A schoolboy collapsed and died after eating berries during a walk with his dad. Benn Curran-Nicholls, 14, was tragically poisoned after ingesting leaves and berries from a yew tree in Fletcher ...

Benn Curran-Nicholls, 14, was walking with his father in Fletcher Moss Park (pictured), Didsbury, on September 18 last year when he ate some of the leaves and berries from a poisonous yew tree.

A coroner has issued an urgent warning about the fatal dangers of eating yew tree berries and leaves following the death of a 14-year-old autistic boy News By Damon Wilkinson Anita Merritt 08:50 ...

A post-mortem concluded Benn suffered 'refractory cardiogenic shock', reports the M.E.N. The tragedy has led coroner Andrew Bridgman to issue a report about the dangers of eating yew tree berries.

The yew ‘berry’ is not a berry at all in the strict botanical sense but a naked seed sitting on a fleshy, sweet, red-coloured mucilaginous appendage called an aril. The aril lacks toxic alkaloids but ...

I got it out and it was a berry that had come off the tree,” she said. READ MORE: Woman fears 200 bed bug bites on her face and arms 'might never go away' after night in Blackpool hotel ...

SIR – A friend of mine recalls being told at school one day never ever to eat yew berries as they were deadly poisonous. On his way home he saw an elderly man under a yew tree eating the berries.