A DISABLED schoolgirl died after choking on a meatball while having lunch at her special needs school, an inquest heard yesterday.Isabel Pearce, 13, who was born with Sotos Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder and Autism, was on her lunch break at Ridge View School in Tonbridge, Kent, on January 26 this year, when she started choking.The inquest was told Isabel had been sitting at a table in a group when the tragedy struck.Lauren Pope, a teaching assistant at the school, said she remembered the...
