Baby dies after mum is unable to get through to 999 shouting 'Why aren't they answering the f**king phone?'

Wyllow-Raine Swinburn was calved astatine John Radcliffe Hospital connected September 27, 2022, and discharged location connected the evening of September 29 but went connected to illness successful the aboriginal hours of September 30

A heartbroken mum shouted "Why are they not answering the f**king phone?" aft being incapable to get done to 999 arsenic her new-born babe went into a 'prolonged play of cardiac arrest'.

Wyllow-Raine Swinburn was calved astatine John Radcliffe Hospital connected September 27, 2022, and discharged location connected the evening of September 29 but went connected to illness successful the aboriginal hours of September 30. It is reported that she died aft her mum, Amelia Pill, spent 7 minutes waiting for idiosyncratic to reply a 999 call.

Wyllow-Raine's household spent 40 minutes giving her CPR arsenic they waited for paramedics astatine their home, Oxford Coroner's Court was told successful 2023. At the clip Senior Coroner Darren Salter adjourned the inquest to let for further grounds to beryllium gathered.

A pre-inquest reappraisal (PIR) into the decease of the three-day-old was held astatine Oxford Coroner's Court yesterday (Wednesday, October 2), reports the Sun.

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When Wyllow-Raine appeared to person stopped breathing her parent called an ambulance astatine 4.38am. However determination was a hold of implicit 7 minutes successful the exigency telephone being answered by the ambulance service.

She woke her member by shouting: "Why are they not answering the f**king phone?"

The baby's grandma Anna Fisher was downstairs looking aft the dogs erstwhile it happened. She ran upstairs arsenic Amelia was crying: "No-one is coming, no-one is coming."

An ambulance did not get astatine the household location until 5.09am, implicit 30 minutes aft the telephone was made. The new-born was taken to John Radcliffe Hospital wherever devastatingly she was pronounced dormant soon aft her arrival.

A post-mortem revealed thing abnormal astir Wyllow-Raine – including immoderate precise uncommon conditions. As a effect the paediatric pathologist Dr Darren Farrell determined her origin of decease arsenic abrupt unexpected decease successful infancy, unexplained.

Following the death, Oxford University NHS Foundation Trust launched an interior investigation. It recovered that Wyllow-Raine would person been successful a prolonged play of cardiac apprehension earlier the 999 call.

The wide result was "not apt to beryllium influenced by the clip taken to reply the 999 telephone and the accomplishment of the ambulance".

The afloat inquest is owed to resume connected December 2-3, 2024.