A young girl was crushed to death by a stone wall when her father demolished the garden shed, an inquest heard.
Surranna Stonestreet was playing outside while her father did some
DIY work. He thought the four-year-old was on a trampoline nearby.
But when one of the shed’s sides toppled over, he found her trapped
under six breeze blocks as blood poured from her mouth. The father of
four picked up his child and screamed for an ambulance.
Although Surranna was revived for a few moments by CPR, she died at the Royal United Hospital in Bath on May 3.
In a statement, her father, Karl, said: ‘It was my intention to take
the shed down and I wanted to start again. I thought she had gone to the
trampoline.’
The shed, at the home in Bath, became unstable when the corrugated
metal roof was removed. It was originally built by Surranna’s uncle,
John Copp.
He told Flax Bourton coroner’s court he learned the shed was structurally unsound at Christmas.
The coroner recorded a verdict accidental death, with severe traumatic head injuries as the cause of death.
In the days after her death, Surranna’s mother, Nicola, wrote on
Facebook: ‘R.I.P BABY UR GOING TO B SOOOOO MISSED UR WERE MY WORLD. NOW
SLEEPING WITH THE ANGELS LOVE U DARLING XXXX.’
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