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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Katie Dickinson

Baby delivered half an hour after pregnant mum died in 10-storey tower block fall

Shakespeare Towers, in the Burmantofts area of Leeds - (Leeds.Gov.UK)

A pregnant woman whose baby survived a 10-storey drop from a tower block may not have intended to kill herself, a coroner has found.

Emma Atkinson’s daughter was successfully delivered within half an hour of the fall at Shakespeare Towers, in the Burmantofts area of Leeds, on October 22 2024.

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