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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Raphael Boyd

Baby safely delivered 30 minutes after mother died in nine-storey fall

Three residential tower blocks, Shakespeare Towers, in Leeds.
The inquest into Emma Atkinson’s death could not conclusively say whether she intended to die when she jumped from flat in Shakespeare Towers, Leeds. Photograph: Leeds City Council

A pregnant woman who died from a nine-storey fall had her baby safely delivered 30 minutes after her death, an inquest has heard.

Emma Atkinson, 38, was seven months pregnant when she fell from the window of her father’s flat in Shakespeare Towers in the Burmantofts area of Leeds, on 22 October 2024.

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