Child, 4, may have been sleepwalking when she accidentally hanged herself with Hello Kitty rucksack strap days before Christmas

The mother of a four-year-old girl who died in a freak accident just days before Christmas said she could have been sleepwalking in the run-up to her death.


Tegan Hancox had gone to bed at home in Tile Hill, Coventry, with her favourite Hello Kitty bag on December 15.

Tragically, the four-year-old was found the next morning by one of her sisters hanging from the top bunk.

Tegan’s mother Becky Hancox, 24, who has two other daughters, Channelle, seven, and Tayla, three, said: 'I was just numb after it happened. There is no other way to describe it.

'If I didn’t have the other two I would probably have curled up and just rotted away.             More