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The family of an eight-year-old girl who died after falling from a balcony in Portsmouth has paid tribute to a "beautiful soul". Police were called to a block of flats in Wingfield Street in the city ...

A woman arrested on suspicion of neglect after an eight-year-old girl fell from the balcony of a block of flats will face no further action. A 43-year-old woman had been held following the death of ...

An eight-year-old girl died after falling to her death from the sixth-floor balcony of her mother's home, an inquest has heard. Minnie Rae Dunn, who lived with her grandmother, was at her mum Rebecca ...

Minnie-Rae Dunn was playing on a sixth floor balcony when she fell An eight-year-old girl fell to her death from a balcony while she was visiting her mother's sixth floor flat, an inquest has heard.

22:26, Wed, May 28, 2025 Updated: 22:33, Wed, May 28, 2025 Eight-year-old Minnie Rae Dunn fell to her death from her mother’s sixth-floor balcony after she went out to play with a friend. An inquest ...

A 'happy' eight-year-old girl fell 60ft to her death from a cluttered sixth-floor balcony after visiting her mother who had smoked cannabis that day, an inquest heard today. Minnie-Rae Dunn tragically ...

The mother of an eight-year-old girl who fell to her death from the sixth-floor balcony of her home has told an inquest that letting her daughter play out on it was the “biggest mistake” of her life.