A four-year-old child has been found hung in her bedroom by a hair band after a freakish accident yesterday.

 

Phil Brown tried to resuscitate his daughter after he found her lifeless body hung with a hair band which was tied to a hammock at the family home in Kent on New Years Day, her father said: “I took her down and tried to get her back, had tied the hair band to the hammock, used to store stuffed toys, while she was playing in her room.”

 The couple called 999 and young Paige was taken to the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford where she was pronounced dead. Ashford Coroner’s court recorded a verdict of accidental death, the coroner said: “It was an entirely unpredicted, freakish accident”.  Reliving the dreadful night his daughter died Mr Brown explained to the court that his daughter was upset when she went downstairs to him and said she could not untie the hair band, which was in a tight knot.  

After seeing how upset Paige was he and Ms Ford went upstairs but could not untie the hair band, they decided to give up and try again later after lunch; unfortunately after they went back downstairs the horrific accident occurred. .

 The inquest heard that the post-mortem examination performed by Consultant pathologist Dr Charles Lawson showed Paige died of compression of the neck due to suspension; he believes she stood on the stool to reach the hair band and slipped off. Coroner Rachel Redman said: “I cannot see that there was anything that you could have done to have prevented what happened to Paige.”