Boy, 3, fed Calpol to dying mum

A pregnant mother-of-six died after she was found collapsed with a brain haemorrhage by her young sons.

And in a heart-rending attempt to revive his mum, one of the boys, aged three, took a bottle of children's medicine Calpol upstairs 'to make her better'.

Kimberly Hartley, 26, who was four months pregnant with a boy, was found unconscious in the bedroom by Adam, three, and two-year-old Joshua. Toby, her seven-month-old son, was also at the family home in Fitton Hill, Oldham. Kimberley died in hospital three days later.



Their father and Kimberley's partner Andrew Palmer told how he arrived home to find the three children screaming and crying. Adam had had to use a chair to open the fridge door to get the Calpol. Andrew, 29, found the bottle on the carpet near her.

He said: "Adam just said that mummy fell. He had got a chair out, put it up to the fridge and took her the Calpol to try and make her better.

"I do not think he gave her any of the Calpol. He knows that his mum used to give him it when he was ill. He just thought it would help."