A young boy who fell to his death from a 15th-floor window had lived in a "clearly loving environment", an inquest has been told.

Aalim Ahmed died after falling from the kitchen window of a residential tower in Plaistow, east London.

The five-year-old died instantly, with his "distraught" father Makail Ahmed running down from the top-floor temporary social housing flat to find his son's body shortly before 6am on 16 May 2024.

Mr Ahmed and the child's mother, Sahra Osman, have blamed Newham Council and described his death as "preventable", following reports that Ms Osman had repeatedly raised safety concerns about the property.

Aalim’s parents stepped out of the proceedings at Walthamstow Coroners’ Court when audio capturing his final moments was played.

The couple left the room on Tuesday while grainy CCTV audio recorded outside the building was played to those present.

A young child’s voice is twice heard counting down “3, 2, 1” and “a loud clang” follows some seconds later, according to a statement read on behalf of Detective Constance Joe Linton who carried out a review of CCTV footage outside Jacobs House.

He added that after the commotion, “you can hear another young child shouting ‘Aalim'”, who would appear to be the boy’s brother who was then three years old.

Mr Ahmed was “topless and clearly distressed in the footage” as he found his son, DC Linton told the court.

DC Linton said “it is most likely from the footage available” that Aalim had “jumped out” of the flat at Jacobs House in New City Road “of his own accord without the presence of a third party”.

A post-mortem examination found Aalim died from “multiply injuries due to or as a consequence of trauma” from a “fall from height.”

Detective Inspector Jamie Humm, who investigated the incident, said there was “no evidence or suspicion he (Aalim) had been forced.”

“The flat was well furnished and it was clearly a loving environment for a child,” he noted.

He added the soon after arriving at the scene he was satisfied “there was no evidence of a crime not that I thought there would be,.”

Ms Osman has told the court she was “scared” and “horrified” when Newham Council put them in the top-floor flat, which needed repairs, stating that Aalim was autistic, had “no sense of danger” and the place was not suitable for her young family, which also included a newborn baby girl.

Despite engineers having been to look at the repairs, she felt the flat was still not safe and there were “open windows”, according to Ms Osman.

All the windows were closed before the family went to bed, the inquest heard.

Aalim could have been climbing to get a biscuit from a cupboard but the windows had “faulty” restrictors and her ongoing complaints to get them fixed led only to a series of workmen who did not sort the problem, she said.

Biscuits were found on the kitchen table but it is still not known how the child would have got to the window, the court heard.

Assistant coroner Ian Wade, who described the audio recording as “poignant”, said: “Aalim at his tender age and with his autism could not have known what could have happened.

“It seems to me that he would not have meant to have deliberately taken the stance to have harmed himself.”

Robert O’Sullivan, of the London Ambulance Service, recalled that “a number of colleagues were visibly shocked” after finding the boy and as a cordon was placed around the building.

In his statement, he recalled: “There was an adult male shouting ‘I have told them about the window’.”

He was not sure if this meant it had been reported to the council.

The right-hand kitchen window was open and the room was cordoned off.

Sergeant Christopher Diment, who was among the officers who attended the scene, said Mr Ahmed was “clearly distraught, pacing around and shouting”, and was “overcome with grief”.

When they went into the flat Mr Ahmed was saying something about the state of the windows, he told the court.

Ms Osman has denied any suggestion she may have “forced” the window open to cope in hot weather.

Successful smoke and fire alarm tests were carried out in April 2024 and the council engineer also noted there was mould in the bedroom and kitchen, an extractor needed repair and a living room window latch needing fixing.

Ms Osman told the inquest she used this opportunity to tell him that the kitchen window also needed to be fixed, but the engineer says the living room latch was the only a problem mentioned.

Aalim’s family had worked with an occupational therapist to help support his needs.

His teacher Esme Johns said the boy had to be reminded not to do or touch something because he “lacked danger awareness”.

She added “he would say sorry, but found it difficult to understand”.

The hearing continues.