THE grieving parents of a baby found dead in his cot have paid tribute to their “beautiful blue-eyed boy.”

Jayden Brett-Jenkins was just 13-months-old when he was found motionless in his dad’s bedroom in Stewart Mews, Bournemouth.

Jayden and his three-year-old sister, Keira, had stayed the night with their dad, Charlie Brett, and had just had breakfast when tragedy struck, an inquest heard.

The little boy’s mum, Zoe Jenkins, 21, of Methuen Close, Bournemouth, said: “He will be sadly missed and we will remember him forever. Keira loved him – we all did.”

And dad Charlie added: “He was our little cheeky chappy.”

District coroner Sheriff Payne heard the two children stayed with 24-year-old Charlie, who was estranged from their mum, every Saturday night and Jayden was found dead on Sunday February 17 this year.

Charlie told the Bournemouth inquest he gave Keira some cereal and Jayden some banana in the bedroom, then went downstairs to wash up.

“It was when I went back upstairs that I found him” he said. “He was not responding to me. I got him out and tried to give him mouth to mouth. I didn’t know what to do – it was all just too much.”

He said Jayden’s blanket was over his mouth when he found him.

The coroner heard a police investigation was launched following the death and that a forensic paediatric post mortem examination was carried out at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

The cause of Jayden’s death was undetermined and expert Dr Liina Kiho said it is possible that the blanket and a mild vital infection may have contributed to his death.

Detective Inspector Stewart Dipple of Dorset Police told the inquest: “There was nothing that might cause concern. There was no evidence of anything untoward or suspicious.”

Recording an open verdict, Mr Payne said: “From the evidence I have heard there is no suggestion that Charlie or Zoe were at fault or did anything wrong. Sadly, there are deaths of many infants of totally unknown cause.”