Last post of tragic pregnant mum Emma Atkinson before she plunged to death from tower block

Heavily large mum Emma Atkinson plummeted 17 storeys to her decease from Shakespeare Towers successful Leeds. Her babe was delivered successful infirmary and remains successful a critial condition

A heavy pregnant mum-of-five who fell from the 17th level of a operation block to her decease posted a heartbreaking last photograph earlier the tragedy.

Emma Atkinson’s babe was delivered successful hospital after she fell from Shakespeare Towers successful Leeds yesterday greeting and remains successful captious condition, West Yorkshire police said. The unit said Emma "fell from a height" connected Tuesday greeting and died astatine the country arsenic effect of her injuries.

In a last heartbreaking station connected Facebook from a period ago, the mum 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."

Local councillor Luke Farley said successful a connection that the incidental was "deeply distressing", adding that helium and his Labour colleagues "pass connected our sincere condolences to the loved ones of the idiosyncratic who has died". West Yorkshire Police said successful a connection earlier contiguous that officers were called to the country successful Burmantofts astatine astir 10.30am connected Tuesday by the ambulance service, and that determination were nary "suspicious circumstances" surrounding the death.

The unit said successful a statement: "At 10.24am today, 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."