PARAMEDICS described how Frankie Smith and Savannah Brockhill were “calm, not panicking and had no sense of urgency” when they were called to treat Star Hobson.

Giving evidence into trial over the alleged murder of one-year-old Star by her mother and her partner on September 22, 2020, they described how neither woman seemed distressed as Star lay fatally injured on the floor of Smith’s flat.

Paramedic Wendy Durkin and emergency care assistant Andy Campbell were rushed to the flat where Smith, 20, and Star lived in Wesley Place, Keighley, to a ‘Category 1’ case involving an infant.

Mr Campbell said Category 1 cases are “as serious as it gets, your response is heightened”.

Asked by prosecutor Alistair MacDonald QC what his experience of Category 1 cases involving children were like, he said: “There is a sense of panic, parents are panicked.”

But that was not the impression he got from Savannah Brockhill, 28, when she came to meet him in the flats’ car park.

He said: “She was walking over quite slowly. She said the patient was upstairs in the flat.

“She wasn’t crying, she didn’t seem to be panicked. Her movement was slow, there was no urgency as we went up to the flat.

“She said the child was unattended and she heard a bang. She said she found the girl floppy and had performed CPR.”

Wendy Durkin said Brockhill was "very calm and had no urgency in her voice whatsoever" which she said was "not normal; I'd expect someone to be worried about their child, panicking and rushing".

Ms Durkin added Brockhill told her she had Google searched "how to treat a shocked baby", before making the 999 call.

After finding Star, Mr Campbell said: “I saw a very pale, almost lifeless child laying on her front wearing only a nappy.

“Her breathing was very shallow; if we didn’t intervene straight away it was a cardiac arrest situation.”

Ms Durkin said: "Star laid on her front on the floor, very grey and waxy, not moving, wearing just a nappy.

"I knew she was gravely ill and we needed to move quickly."

When Mr Campbell scooped up Star to take her to the ambulance, less than a minute after arriving, he had to tell Smith to come to the ambulance.

“She took her time getting ready, gathering a coat and phone. There was no rush or panic, she didn’t seem emotional.”

Ms Durkin said neither Smith or Brockhill showed any sense of urgency to leave the flat.

He said in the ambulance, Star was unresponsive, and no heartbeat could be found.

About 20 seconds later, Star began vomiting "massive amounts of sick".

Wendy Durkin, a paramedic with 12 years experience, described the sick as “having the texture of runny Weetabix” and that it “just kept coming”.

Mr Campbell said when he started CPR more sick came from Star, “out of her mouth, nose and a small amount from her eyes”.

Both Ms Durkin and Mr Campbell said Brockhill told them she’d done CPR and gestured that she pressed on Star’s abdomen; they both said this was the wrong way of doing it.

Ms Durkin drilled into Star’s bone to deliver a shot of adrenaline which didn’t revive Star’s heart. After 20 minutes working on Star they rushed her to hospital where she was pronounced dead a short time later.

Mr Campbell said it was only on the way to hospital that Smith became emotional “as it became clear what was happening”.

Ms Durkin added: "She began to scream and cry. She began to realise the gravity of the situation Star was in."

The trial continues.

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