Devastated mum learnt tragic tot was dying after being crushed by fireplace on phone
dailyrecord.co.ukA devastated mum learnt her tot was dying after being crushed by a fireplace on the phone after popping out twenty minutes earlier.Samantha Walsh first heard of the horror incident on September 18 involving her two-year-old son Carter when her teenage niece rang her and said he had "banged his head" but, in fact, a marble fireplace collapsed - after its bottom section “snapped” and crushed the tot.
The 38-year-old from Manchester was terrified couldn't help thinking of the worst-case scenario so rushed home to find paramedics desperately trying to save little Carter on Wednesday afternoon but tragically he died in hospital.
Speaking out for the first time since the horrific loss mum-of-four Samantha told the Mirror: "He was my best friend. He was well-loved, not just by his family but by anybody that met him.
He broke the hearts of everybody he met... He was the apple of our eyes." Carter had enjoyed the "best day ever" with family on Wednesday - and got to meet his grandmother's horse - and played with his cousin and aunt Natalie Prescott, 35, at his home when Samantha popped out.But less than half an hour later, disaster struck and an ambulance was called to the address.Aunt, Natalie said: "The fireplace, it just collapsed in the middle.
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