The manager of a designer clothing store where a four-year-old boy died after a heavy mirror fell on him has insisted that he carried out regular safety checks.

Andrew Morgan told an inquest that he checked the fixtures and fittings at the Hugo Boss shop at the Bicester outlet village in Oxfordshire every day, and that he would have reported any concerns. But he refused to answer questions on whether he documented monthly health and safety inspections.

Mr Morgan was giving evidence at an inquest into the death of Austen Harrison, from Crawley who was crushed when a large wing-panelled mirror he was playing with in the shop's fitting area toppled on to him while his father tried on suits.

He was left with irreversible brain damage and died four days later on June 8 2013 after life support was turned off.

The inquest, at Oxfordshire Coroner's Court, heard that the mirror should have been attached to the wall, rather than left free-standing.

The jury was told the mirror was delivered to the store shortly after it opened in mid-August 2012, and was later put up in the suit fitting room in place of another mirror, while Mr Morgan was away.

Mr Morgan told the court that neither he nor any of his staff took down the old mirror or installed the new one, a responsibility which lay with a team of professional shop-fitters.

He said: "That would have needed to have been done by a professional and we wouldn't have taken part in any fixtures or fittings, in terms of the management team or sales staff."

He added: "I put my trust in the professional person doing that, and to my knowledge it was attached to the wall."

Mr Morgan said the mirror was in a "very high-traffic" area, used by customers and with access to an upstairs section of the shop and a stock room. But there were no reports of any concerns from customers.

He said: "In the event that there were, I would have addressed and communicated them. I would have had no reason not to."

When questioned by Barry Berlin, representing Cherwell District Council, Mr Morgan said: "The fixtures and fittings were checked daily by myself. If there were any concerns they would have been highlighted daily."

And he told the court that two risk assessments were carried out at the shop, one by an external company which told him that "everything was fine and in working order".

Regarding the mirror, he said: "We were working on the basis that the mirror was attached to the wall, that it was done on a professional basis and that there was no reason to doubt it."

But when asked by Mr Barry whether he had documented the monthly health and safety inspections he was required to carry out, Mr Morgan replied: "No comment."

The inquest also heard that an email sent by Benoit Mareschal, Hugo Boss's director of shop construction, to senior colleagues - to which Mr Morgan would hve had access - gave an update on work at the shop during August 2012, which referred to "installing" the three-way mirror in the fitting area.