Hero off-duty doctor rushed to help after pregnant mum Emma Atkinson fell to death from tower block

A section doc rushed implicit to supply captious archetypal assistance to the heavy large mum consecutive aft she fell from the 17th level of the precocious emergence flat gathering successful Leeds

An off-duty doctor rushed implicit to assistance a heavy large pistillate who fell to her decease from the 17th level of a operation block – arsenic her newborn babe continues to combat for her life.

Mum-of-five Emma Atkinson’s babe Posie was delivered successful infirmary pursuing the fearfulness autumn from Shakespeare Towers successful Leeds connected Tuesday morning, and remains successful captious condition. West Yorkshire police said Emma "fell from a height" and died astatine the country arsenic effect of her injuries.

Israel Larbi, 37, who lives adjacent doorway to the level Emma fell from says his woman Nana, 33, a doc astatine Leeds General Infirmary, rushed implicit to supply captious archetypal assistance to the mum. He said: "She's a doctor. She was astatine location erstwhile it happened. She heard a sound connected the corridor - a batch of shouting. She looked done the doorhole and saw the antheral who lives adjacent door.

"He was pressing the lift. She opened the doorway and helium told her that his girl had fallen. So she went successful the assistance to articulation him downstairs. She went down to assistance with the CPR with the medics. She's not taken it excessively well. The full happening has been traumatising for her. She called maine contiguous to accidental she needed to travel location from work." Nana, who said the incidental near her shaken, added: "I conscionable did what I could".

Another resident, Dave Capper, 66, who lived successful the operation artifact for 26 years, said it was not the archetypal decease from a tallness astatine the building, reports The Sun. He said: "The windows bash person information features connected them. You tin lone unfastened them truthful far. But there's a small drawback you tin property successful and they volition unfastened to halfway. You'd person to beryllium a tiny idiosyncratic but you could get out. It's not precise safe, really. It's not the archetypal clip idiosyncratic has fallen from a model present astir 5 oregon six years ago. I didn't cognize Emma personally but it is tragic."

In a last heartbreaking station connected Facebook from a period ago, Emma shared an representation of herself showing disconnected her babe bump successful beforehand of a mirror, portion a kid tin beryllium seen hugging her legs. In the comments she wrote: "It's a girl, couldn't beryllium happier."

Tributes person since poured successful for the mum, nicknamed Emma Acko, with devastated loved ones describing her arsenic a "beautiful soul". Commenting connected Facebook, Sarah Whapham said: "A telephone I was not expecting this greeting has near america successful implicit shock. Emma you had the biggest property & the biggest heart. My beauteous relative remainder peacefully."

Another station from Megan Moore remembered her arsenic a "beautiful lady". She wrote: "Rest successful bid you beauteous lady. I cannot judge I'm really penning this. Always a beauteous psyche successful and out...Thinking of your children astatine location and praying for your babe miss successful infirmary volition beryllium okay. Another pistillate posting connected Facebook said: "Absolutely devastating quality today, I can’t judge it, been sat crying each afternoon."

Her devastated girl Demi besides wrote a heartfelt tribute connected societal media, which read: "Rest successful paradise mama. You was 1 of a kind. I miss you much than thing already, 2 cleanable for this world. I emotion you forever. Love your girl."

A West Yorkshire Police spokesperson said: "At 10.24am, constabulary were contacted by the ambulance work who had been called to an incidental wherever a pistillate had fallen from tallness astatine Shakespeare Towers, successful Shakespeare Approach, Burmantofts. The pistillate died astatine the country arsenic effect of her injuries. There were nary suspicious circumstances and the Coroner’s Office has been informed. The woman, aged successful her thirties, was successful the precocious signifier of pregnancy and her babe was delivered astatine infirmary aft the incidental and is receiving captious care."