Two reports describe the death of a five-day-old baby, Arabella Mayer, after her 18-year-old mother, Lydia Pass, fell asleep while sitting in a chair. Both outlets say Pass woke to find the newborn unresponsive in her arms. The Mirror reports that an inquest heard Pass was exhausted and that the baby was found unresponsive after several days at home, with details indicating the child had been living at the time of her death. The Daily Record (Scotland) also states the death is being treated as a sudden unexpected infant death and identifies the location as Abbey Hulton.
While both articles focus on the mother’s account of falling asleep and then discovering the baby not responding, they do not provide additional confirmed medical findings in the excerpts provided. The reports therefore align on the basic timeline—sleeping with the baby, then waking to find her unresponsive—and the shared identification of the infant, the mother’s age, and the circumstances surrounding discovery. The inquest process is referenced in one report, indicating ongoing formal investigation into the circumstances.
