A mum has spoken of her horror after she discovered she was living a "monster" who killed her 22-month-old daughter. Mary Davies' daughter Annabelle died a day after she was attacked by Brandon Heath at their home in Northwich, Cheshire.
Mary had been dropping off a friend at work when Heath phoned and claimed the toddler had collapsed. She mistakenly believed he had "tried to save" Annabelle until police knocked on her door 11 months later.
Recalling the day of the attack, Mary said: "I rushed home and paramedics were already there. Annabelle was upstairs in the bedroom with a tube in her mouth, not breathing.
I didn't know anything that had happened." Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features. Heath told a paramedic Annabelle had fallen off a bed and must have hit her head, the Liverpool ECHO reports.
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