Toddler fell out of toilet window to his death in front of father
A FATHER has described the tragic moment his toddler plunged head-first to his death from the bathroom window.
Jay Beckett screamed out for his wife as 21-month- old Jayden fell from the first floor, having climbed on to the toilet seat and then the window sill.
Mr Beckett was outside smoking a cigarette when he saw ‘something out of the corner of his eye’, which he realised was Jayden, an inquest heard.
Mr Beckett told police how the horrific incident unfolded on a sunny evening in April.
He said: ‘I saw him strike the floor head-first. I screamed out for (my wife) Stephanie and took him to the car.’
The tragedy happened after Jayden slipped away from his mother at bedtime at the family home in Earley, near Reading.
He suffered an extensive brain injury in the 15ft fall.
Berkshire coroner Peter Bedford heard Jayden was taken off a life- support machine in a specialist hospital unit when he showed no signs of improving.
PC Leylah Marouf, who interviewed Mr Beckett, said: ‘He had been outside smoking and out of the corner of his eye he saw what he now realised was Jayden falling.’
Mrs Beckett also gave a statement to police in which she said Jayden ran off ‘for a few minutes’.
She said: ‘I thought he had gone to see my sister who lives with us, which he often does, to postpone going to bed.
‘I assumed he’d come back by himself or she would bring him back. Then I heard Jay shout upstairs to the effect, “Jayden has fallen out of the window”.’ The frantic
‘Left alone for a matter of minutes’
but family quicker then called to decided drive an the ambulance it would injured be toddler to the Royal Berkshire Hospital themselves.
However, on the journey Jayden stopped breathing.
Mrs Beckett told police: ‘I held him in the front seat of the car. I was talking to the ambulance as we were driving. They told us to pull over. I had done CPR at work so I administered the compressions while the ambulance arrived.’
Jayden was transferred to the specialist head injury unit at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, suffering from a bleed on the brain and a severe traumatic brain injury.
He was taken off the lifesupport machine three days later and died on April 15 with
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