Girl, five, died riding faulty disability lift, court hears
by Steven Morris and agency from World news | The Guardian on (#46ZD6)
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A mother has told a court how her five-year-old daughter was killed when her head became trapped in a faulty disability lift at their family home.
Alexys Brown, who was described as a "guardian angel" to her disabled older brother, got into the lift to fetch his mobile phone from upstairs for him. She got her head stuck in a hole in a broken see-through door panel of the lift, and as it moved upwards she became caught between the lift and the ground-floor ceiling.
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