Nursery worker Sophee Redhead told the jury at Leeds Crown Court about the moment she saw Lydia Bishop ‘motionless’ on a slide at York College nursery with a rope round her neck.
Asked by her barrister, Alistair MacDonald QC, ‘Were you exercising vigilance in relation to Lydia as you understood it?’ Ms Redhead said, ‘Yes’.
She claimed she had seen Lydia playing in a sand pit on the same side as her where there was a ‘makeshift barrier’ to stop children from going on the slide without supervision.
Ms Redhead told the court she was comforting a child who had fallen over and was still with the child when a colleague, Chloe Moses, said Lydia had not had her afternoon snack. It was then she realised that the three-year-old was no longer in the sand pit.
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