A girl of six was playing ballerinas when she was crushed by a decaying tree that a council failed to cut down in a schoolyard.
Ella Henderson's heartbroken parents expected her to be safe when they dropped her off that fateful morning, a court heard today.
Instead, a large section of a rotted willow tree crashed onto Ella and her friends as they played in 32 mph winds just before lunchtime on September 25, 2020.
