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A toddler was heard saying "stop mummy, stop daddy" days before she was stamped to death by one of her parents, a court heard.
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'Nothing's happening. There's no heart beat': Parents accused of stamping their toddler daughter to death weep as jury hears harrowing 999 call
The parents accused of murdering their 21-month-old daughter by stamping her death broke down in court today when their panicked 999 call was played to the jury.- Kathryn Smith, 23, and Matthew Rigby, 22, accused of murdering daughter
- Ayeeshia Jane Smith was only 21-months old when she died in May 2014
- Wound to her heart caused by a powerful chest stamp led to cardiac arrest
- Also sustained a bruising to her back, buttocks, head, neck, eyelid and leg
- Smith and Rigby deny murdering toddler at their Burton-upon-Trent home
A distraught Smith could be heard crying uncontrollably as she told the female operator toddler Ayeeshia Jane Smith had stopped breathing after having a seizure at their family home in Stretton, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire.
'It's my daughter, she's had a seizure. She's not breathing. She's seizing,' the young mother was heard saying.
'She's on the floor. She has a seizure when she gets too hot.'
As Mr Rigby performed CPR in the background, Smith then said: 'There's nothing. She's gone, she's gone. You need to be here.'
The mobile phone was then put on loudspeaker as the call handler instructed Rigby to put his finger in his daughter's mouth to try and remove any obstructions to her airway.
He can be heard counting to five repeatedly while performing chest compressions on the little girl as her mother wails in the background.
Smith then says: 'Nothing's happening. There's no heart beat,' before hanging up.
The distressing recording was provided in court the day after the couple's former neighbour Tracey Roberts gave evidence in which she claimed to have heard a child's voice screaming 'stop mummy, stop daddy!' just days before young Ayeeshia's tragic death.
The toddler died at Burton's Queen's Hospital on May 1, 2014. She had suffered a cardiac arrest, triggered by a laceration to her heart. A post-mortem concluded the injury was caused by a powerful foot stamp on her chest.
Smith and Rigby, both from Nottingham, deny killing their daughter - who was also found to have sustained a large bruise to her back and buttocks, bruising to her head, neck, left eyelid and left leg on the day she died.
'The place looked reasonably well-kept and I didn't hear any shouting that I can recall.
'My initial vision was the adult male performing CPR on the child. The child was laid on the floor, flat on her back on a fluffy blanket. She was naked in front of the fireplace.
'She looked incredibly pale. I instructed the male to stand to one side so I could start treatment. When I touched the child I noticed how cold she was, it was unusually cold. There was blueness around the extremities which indicates a lack of oxygen in the body.
'I didn't observe any markings to the child.
'I started chested compressions and my colleague put a tube in her mouth to try and get some oxygen into her. We gave her adrenaline but there was no heart rhythm at all. She was flat-lining.
'We conveyed her to the ambulance and drove to hospital. The female was in the front and the male was in the back with myself and a colleague as we continued resuscitation.
'There was a full team waiting for us when we arrived and I was still at the hospital when I later heard the child had died.'
Mr Bailey said that when he was at the couple's home, Mr Smith told him he had heard a thud in the bedroom. He told the paramedic that his daughter had previously suffered a febrile convulsion - a common seizure among children.
He added: 'I overheard a comment from them that there was a five-minute delay in calling an ambulance because they thought they could handle the situation themselves.'
Paramedic Mark Chiles, who also attended the scene, said: 'The mother appeared very distraught and said "do something, do something". It was mentioned the child had had a couple of seizures in the past.
'The male said that the child had taken herself off to bed and they heard a scream. He said went in and found her purple and she started to twitch and then went limp.
'Her skin was white and waxy when we got there and she was very cold.'
As well as the recording from the day of Ayeeshia's death, the jury also heard three other of 999 calls made by Smith - one from March 11, 2014, and two dated April 14 that year.
In the first tape, Smith pretended to be a neighbour and reported 'arguing and shouting' going on at her address and 'things being smashed'.
When asked by the operator if she has children, she hung up.
In the second call - made just over a month later - she asked for 'someone to be sent to my address'.
When the operator asked why a child could be heard crying in the background, Smith shouted: 'Put it down'. She could then be heard arguing with a man, adding: 'Stop it, Matt. Stop taking my daughter off me. I'm not letting you get into trouble. No, I'm not.'
Hours after that call, Smith phoned 999 again. In that instance she claimed Rigby had threatened to have her killed.
On February 3, 2014 - three months before her death - Ayeeshia was treated in hospital after becoming 'floppy and unresponsive.'
Doctor Safa Al-Suraj, consultant neuropathologist at Kings College Hospital, told the court: 'Microscopic examination showed bleeds consistent with those of several weeks or months old duration.
'There was also an old healed thin subdural haematoma in the spinal cord. It was consistent with bleeding of several weeks to months' duration.
'She was starved of oxygen in the period immediately before death.
'It is possible these could have been caused by one or more episodes of trauma.
'Such trauma could occur in a fall where there's more than one impact but it would need to be a significant fall.
'A possible cause for the injuries would be hyper-flexing and hyper-extension of the neck which involves excessive moving of the head forward and back.
'This can be caused by shaking and can result in strain of the blood vessels and bleeding.'
Ayeeshia had only been returned to Ms Smith six months before her death, having previously been taken into care by social services.
Mr Hotten said a post-mortem examination revealed Ayeeshia had suffered a fatal wound to her heart and had three broken ribs.
'It's my daughter, she's had a seizure. She's not breathing. She's seizing,' the young mother was heard saying.
'She's on the floor. She has a seizure when she gets too hot.'
As Mr Rigby performed CPR in the background, Smith then said: 'There's nothing. She's gone, she's gone. You need to be here.'
The mobile phone was then put on loudspeaker as the call handler instructed Rigby to put his finger in his daughter's mouth to try and remove any obstructions to her airway.
He can be heard counting to five repeatedly while performing chest compressions on the little girl as her mother wails in the background.
Smith then says: 'Nothing's happening. There's no heart beat,' before hanging up.
The distressing recording was provided in court the day after the couple's former neighbour Tracey Roberts gave evidence in which she claimed to have heard a child's voice screaming 'stop mummy, stop daddy!' just days before young Ayeeshia's tragic death.
The toddler died at Burton's Queen's Hospital on May 1, 2014. She had suffered a cardiac arrest, triggered by a laceration to her heart. A post-mortem concluded the injury was caused by a powerful foot stamp on her chest.
Smith and Rigby, both from Nottingham, deny killing their daughter - who was also found to have sustained a large bruise to her back and buttocks, bruising to her head, neck, left eyelid and left leg on the day she died.
'The place looked reasonably well-kept and I didn't hear any shouting that I can recall.
'My initial vision was the adult male performing CPR on the child. The child was laid on the floor, flat on her back on a fluffy blanket. She was naked in front of the fireplace.
'She looked incredibly pale. I instructed the male to stand to one side so I could start treatment. When I touched the child I noticed how cold she was, it was unusually cold. There was blueness around the extremities which indicates a lack of oxygen in the body.
'I didn't observe any markings to the child.
'I started chested compressions and my colleague put a tube in her mouth to try and get some oxygen into her. We gave her adrenaline but there was no heart rhythm at all. She was flat-lining.
'We conveyed her to the ambulance and drove to hospital. The female was in the front and the male was in the back with myself and a colleague as we continued resuscitation.
'There was a full team waiting for us when we arrived and I was still at the hospital when I later heard the child had died.'
Mr Bailey said that when he was at the couple's home, Mr Smith told him he had heard a thud in the bedroom. He told the paramedic that his daughter had previously suffered a febrile convulsion - a common seizure among children.
He added: 'I overheard a comment from them that there was a five-minute delay in calling an ambulance because they thought they could handle the situation themselves.'
Paramedic Mark Chiles, who also attended the scene, said: 'The mother appeared very distraught and said "do something, do something". It was mentioned the child had had a couple of seizures in the past.
'The male said that the child had taken herself off to bed and they heard a scream. He said went in and found her purple and she started to twitch and then went limp.
'Her skin was white and waxy when we got there and she was very cold.'
As well as the recording from the day of Ayeeshia's death, the jury also heard three other of 999 calls made by Smith - one from March 11, 2014, and two dated April 14 that year.
In the first tape, Smith pretended to be a neighbour and reported 'arguing and shouting' going on at her address and 'things being smashed'.
When asked by the operator if she has children, she hung up.
In the second call - made just over a month later - she asked for 'someone to be sent to my address'.
When the operator asked why a child could be heard crying in the background, Smith shouted: 'Put it down'. She could then be heard arguing with a man, adding: 'Stop it, Matt. Stop taking my daughter off me. I'm not letting you get into trouble. No, I'm not.'
Hours after that call, Smith phoned 999 again. In that instance she claimed Rigby had threatened to have her killed.
On February 3, 2014 - three months before her death - Ayeeshia was treated in hospital after becoming 'floppy and unresponsive.'
Doctor Safa Al-Suraj, consultant neuropathologist at Kings College Hospital, told the court: 'Microscopic examination showed bleeds consistent with those of several weeks or months old duration.
'There was also an old healed thin subdural haematoma in the spinal cord. It was consistent with bleeding of several weeks to months' duration.
'She was starved of oxygen in the period immediately before death.
'It is possible these could have been caused by one or more episodes of trauma.
'Such trauma could occur in a fall where there's more than one impact but it would need to be a significant fall.
'A possible cause for the injuries would be hyper-flexing and hyper-extension of the neck which involves excessive moving of the head forward and back.
'This can be caused by shaking and can result in strain of the blood vessels and bleeding.'
Ayeeshia had only been returned to Ms Smith six months before her death, having previously been taken into care by social services.
Mr Hotten said a post-mortem examination revealed Ayeeshia had suffered a fatal wound to her heart and had three broken ribs.
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A court heard the tragic tot died from a laceration to her heart that was caused by a powerful foot stamp on her chest, which triggered a cardiac arrest.
Today, a pathologist described in court how the toddler's harrowing injuries were akin to those he would expect to find on the victim of a road traffic collision.
Dr Alexander Kolar, who conducted Ayeeshia's post-mortem, said it would have taken just a minute for the little girl to collapse following her heart laceration.
He told Birmingham Crown Court the youngster also suffered three fractured ribs as a result of the 'blunt force trauma' at her home in Stretton, Burton-upon-Trent, on May 1, 2014.
He added that she had 16 external injuries, including bruises to her back, and both of her lungs had haemorrhaged.
"The colour of these bruises indicate that there had been at least 24 hours between injury and death," said Dr Kolar told the court.
When asked what sort of degree of force would be used to inflict this injury, the pathologist replied: "More than trivial forces have been used.
"It is blunt force trauma using reasonable severe force."
"I would expect these sorts of injuries to occur from severe trauma to the chest or torso similar to that of a victim of a road traffic collision or a fall from a height," the pathologist added.
He said the chest injuries were as a result of a very heavy impact or impacts to the body which 'could have been as a result of stamping'.
During today's hearing, the jury heard how the youngster's rib fractures were two-thirds of the way down her body to the rear and could not have been caused by resuscitation attempts.
Dr Kolar added: "She had been subjected to a very significant trauma to the rear of her body resulting in a fatal chest injury. It was non-accidental."
Today, a pathologist described in court how the toddler's harrowing injuries were akin to those he would expect to find on the victim of a road traffic collision.
Dr Alexander Kolar, who conducted Ayeeshia's post-mortem, said it would have taken just a minute for the little girl to collapse following her heart laceration.
He told Birmingham Crown Court the youngster also suffered three fractured ribs as a result of the 'blunt force trauma' at her home in Stretton, Burton-upon-Trent, on May 1, 2014.
He added that she had 16 external injuries, including bruises to her back, and both of her lungs had haemorrhaged.
"The colour of these bruises indicate that there had been at least 24 hours between injury and death," said Dr Kolar told the court.
When asked what sort of degree of force would be used to inflict this injury, the pathologist replied: "More than trivial forces have been used.
"It is blunt force trauma using reasonable severe force."
"I would expect these sorts of injuries to occur from severe trauma to the chest or torso similar to that of a victim of a road traffic collision or a fall from a height," the pathologist added.
He said the chest injuries were as a result of a very heavy impact or impacts to the body which 'could have been as a result of stamping'.
During today's hearing, the jury heard how the youngster's rib fractures were two-thirds of the way down her body to the rear and could not have been caused by resuscitation attempts.
Dr Kolar added: "She had been subjected to a very significant trauma to the rear of her body resulting in a fatal chest injury. It was non-accidental."
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