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Baby’s cot reins death was a ‘freak’ accident


AN 18 -month-old baby, who liked tram- polining in his cot after being put to bed, was found hanging over the side from a har­ ness used as a safety measure, an inquest


of Clitheroe Road, Wad- dingtun, died from hang­ ing due to a “freak situa- t i o n c a u s e d by a combination of circum­ stances,” said East Lanca­ shire acting coroner Mr Owen Sharpies. He recorded a verdict of


heard. Rhys Carl Scott Darby,


“accidental death,” after hearing that the baby had for the evening been in the care of his da-year-old grandmother, who had used the same harness for her own children. The baby’s 19-year-old


mother. He was a very active baby and bounced up and down a lot. About four months prior to his death, she noticed how high he was jumping and feared that he would jump out, so she decided to use a harness and reins, secured to the base of the cot.


Rhys to bed after feeding and changing him and left him in the care of her mother, while she went out with her boyfriend, Adrian Michael Meadows. The reins were in place when she left the house at about 7-30 p . m. on November 19th.


Miss Darby said she put


mother, Nicola Michelle Darby, a part-time stu­ dent, said that she and the b a b y ’s f a t h e r had separated and she and Rhys lived with her


about 1-20 a. m. and pre­ pared some milk for the baby. A d r i a n went upstairs to look at Rhys and she heard her boy­ friend scream out. Rhys was hanging over the side of the cot with the reins round his neck. Her mother and Adrian tried


She retu rn ed home


unsuccessfully to revive him. She told the coroner


that she could not under­ stand how the accident had happened. She had been using the reins for over a year. They were cot reins — marie specifically for use with a cot. In answer to the coro­


ner, Miss Darby said it was easy to say now that, had she realised what could have happened, she would not have used the reins, but would have thought of some other way. The b ab y ’s g ra n d ­


scream and then saw him taking the baby out of the harness. They both tried to revive him and then Adrian called for the ambulance. Mrs Darby said the


check him at about 8 p.m. He was jumping up and down in his cot. When she went to lied at about 10-30 p.m. all was quiet and she assumed that everything was all right, adding that she did not look at him at that time, because she did not want to disturb him. Later she heard Adrian


mother, Mrs Barbara Darby, a teacher, who was the last person to see Rhys alive, said that lie was a light sleeper and a health visitor had adviser! them to put him in his own room, so that he would not be disturbed. She visited his room to


fiths said the reins seemed quite old and were differ­ ent from walking reins, in that they had two separate pieces instead of a loop and were made of canvas.


to be shallower than the normal type of cot that he was familiar with and it seemed to him that a child could have climbed out.


The cot, he said, seem


jumping up and down. The child’s arm could have slipped out and and he could have then put it over the edge of the cot. The coroner said that


said it was quite likely that one of the baby’s arms had come out of the harness while he was


oner that it was an Italian cot, bought 20 years ago, and might have seemed shallower than the normal type because it could be converted into a bed and had a longer base. The detective inspector


The mother told the cor­


outside the cot, still in his reins. The top of the reins was suspended round his neck. Det. Insp. Ronald Grif­


Rhys’s death was entirely accidental and had been caused by a “freak situa­ tion,” due to a combination of circumstances — the type of cot, the type of cot reins and the fact that Rhys liked to trampoline or dance on the mattress. It was easy now to have


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Rhys in exactly the same way they had always been secured and allowed the baby only enough move­ ment to stand up. She had no idea how he could have got over the top of the cot. When standing up, the reins would “not be all


that free and would not give him enough leeway to bounce over.” The reins were made of fabric and had not stretched with age. Adrian (23), a textile


worker, of West Bradford, said that the babv was


reins were “normal cot r e in s ,” which were secured under the cot mat­ tress. She had used them for her own children and they seemed to be safe. She had, in fact, been advised to get them for her children. They had been bought quite a num­ ber of years ago. They were secured for


had the harness not been used, this would not have happened, but then Rhys might have jumped out of the cot, and, if the cot had


been deep, then it also m i g h t n o t h a v e happened.” Air Sharpies expressed


the condolences of the court to the family and said that there was a great


deal of public sympathy for them.


Cash help Exemption to restore from tax station


urged


ley Council’s Planning and Development Committee were told that exterior landscaping work to the rear and side of the build­ ing are almost complete. Work on the main restora­ tion of the building should start immediately after the Christmas break and last for an estimated 15 weeks, allowing time for arrangements to be com­ pleted for the opening and start of the rail service at the end of May. Besides promises of


grant aid, the council has also been presented with a number of items to display in the new waiting room, including old photographs of scenes on the line, some LMS carriage prints of views of the Ribble Valley and a cast-iron “porter’s office stove.”


been received in respect of the restoration currently underway at Clitheroe’s old railway station. Members of Ribble Val­


PROMISES of financial aid totalling £11,500 have


THE Ribble Valley Coun­ cil is supporting a move to exempt from the council tax severely mentally impaired people who live alone.


and General Purposes Committee were acting on a request from Blackburn Borough Council, asking for support in a move to exempt severely mentally impaired people living alone, in the same wav they were exempt from the community charge.


Members of the Finance


Mr John Hunt noted that there were 14 people in the Ribble Valley who fell into the category.


Chief financial officer


seeking support from all the district councils within Lancashire and requesting them to write to their MPs. Severely mentally impaired people living alone at present pay 507 c of the council tax.


Secondment of council chief under attack


THE forthcoming six-month secondment of the Ribble Valley chief executive to the Associa­


Committee criticised the fact that Mr Ossie Hopkins is being seconded to the very organisation which put forward the recom­ mendations to carve up the Ribble Valley in a pro­ posed Lancashire unitary authority solution.


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executive to the ADC. It is a bitter pill to swallow,”


said Coun. Kate Hooper (Gisburn).


“We are to lose our chief


tion of District Councils has come under attack. Two members of the


person be available to talk and lead where leadership is needed. We have this air of complacency that what we want will happen willy-nilly,” he said.


we should take is to tell th e ch ie f e x e cu t iv e , ’Sorry, it would have enhanced your future career prospects, but we have changed our mind,’ ” Coun. Dyson added.


“One of the first steps


noted that Mr Hopkins kins was being seconded to who is to be in London for tlle national ADC office three days a week from a,ul that the Lancashire mid-January, would be ADC, which had put gone during a crucial time forward the recent unitary in the unitary authority authority solution bid. He urged councillors to reconsider their deci- sion


secondment. “It’s farcical. It’s of crit­


su p p o r t in g th e


ical importance to all of us that the best equipped


d if fe ren t matttie r ogether.


was a alt-


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(Wilpshire) argued that the decision allowing the secondment had already been made and was final.


Coun. P e te r Evans Coun. Frank Dyson Pointed out that Mr Hop- Coun. Bill Fleming The Blackburn council is


the death of Rhys will not be in vain — that we will all learn something from this combination of cir­ cumstances, that we will all be on our guard, for children are completely unpredictable and Rhys was an extremely lively little boy.” “It is easy to say that,


knowledge and hindsight. It was also very difficult to say anything to the family that would bring relief for their “terrible suffering.” "One can only add that


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