Olivia-Leigh Picton had been sleeping in the bottom bunk for two months after a health visitor said she should be given her own room.
Her parents fitted a bed brace to ensure Olivia-Leigh didn’t fall out of the bottom bunk, but the little girl somehow managed to wriggle between the bars of the ladder leading to the top bunk and got stuck against the mattress.
The freak incident just days before Christmas last year left Olivia-Leigh suspended from the bed by her neck.
She was found by her father as he was getting his other daughter ready for nursery.
Olivia-Leigh was rushed to hospital by ambulance but was pronounced dead despite attempts to revive her.
At an inquest in Burnley, Lancashire, Olivia-Leigh’s devastated parents Katie Ross, 23, and David Picton, 24, warned other parents not to put young children in their own beds - especially bunk beds because of the dangers.
The hearing was told Olivia-Leigh had been given her own room as the couple’s eldest daughter Ella-Mae, aged three, had difficulty sleeping properly when she was not in the same bedroom as her parents.
The couple did not want Olivia-Leigh to have the same habits as her sister so they decided to put her in her own room in the bottom bunk.
Source: Daily Mail
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