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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Charlotte Hadfield

Tragedy after girl, 4, asked her dad to run her a bath

A dad told of the devastating 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, told the ECHO: "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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