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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Charlotte Hadfield & Helena Vesty

Dad's devastation at finding four-year-old daughter drowning in bath

A dad told of the horrifying moment he found his four-year-old daughter drowning in the bath.

Harriet Richardson asked her dad Jamie to run her a bath after she started suffering from chickenpox on January 5. As Jamie, originally from Southport and living in Reading, went to get Harriet some pyjamas, the four-year-old suffered a seizure in the bath and went under the water.

Jamie, 31, said: "She was in the bath, happy as Larry. Prior to this I'd done a temperature check - she's susceptible to febrile seizures (fits that can happen when a child has a fever). Her temperature was fine, 36.5.

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