These are the first pictures ever published of the home where Poppi Worthington died including the double bed where she was found unresponsive and bleeding after her father ‘probably’ sexually abused her.
The bed is shown strewn with towels, pillows and kitchen paper with a half-drunk baby bottle on the bedside table.
Cumbria’s coroner has today also released images of the Peppa Pig pyjamas she was wearing on the night she died as the inquest into her death continues today.
The upsetting pictures also show the sofa where paramedics tried desperately to revive her, her pink babygrow and Hello Kitty cot blanket.
Last week Poppi’s father Paul avoided 252 questions about her death –including why her DNA was found on his genitals – but chose to answer one to describe the 13-month-old as a ‘bully’.
Mr Justice Peter Jackson said last year the toddler suffered ‘a penetrative sexual assault’ before her sudden death and ‘the only person who could realistically have done this to her was her father’.
These are the first pictures ever published of the home where Poppi Worthington including the double bed where she collapsed. A judge subsequently decided that she had’ probably been sexually assaulted by her father
Poppi ended up lifeless in the bed after her father removed her from this cot, which contained a Hello Kitty blanket
Poppi’s Peppa Pig pyjamas worn by the 13-month-old on the night she died in 2012
Poppi died from the injuries sustained shortly after her father, who had been watching pornography, took her into his bed at the family home in Barrow-in-Furness, in December 2012
Mr Worthington was accused of sexually abusing 13-month-old Poppi shortly before her tragic death in 2012 – but he escaped prosecution amid claims of a bungled police investigation.
Judge on Poppi’s injuries: ‘The only person who could realistically have done this to her was her father’
Mr Justice Peter Jackson (pictured) ruled Paul Worthington had brutally abused his daughter who died in hospital hours later
Details of what happened to Poppi Worthington were only revealed for first time in January 2016 with the publication of findings by High Court family judge Mr Justice Peter Jackson.
Poppi died from injuries sustained shortly after her father, who had earlier been watching pornography on his computer, took her into his bed at the family home in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
The family court judge ruled Paul Worthington had brutally abused his daughter who died in hospital hours later.
But a catalogue of blunders by police, social workers and medical staff mean that despite the legal ruling Worthington, 49, is unlikely to face any criminal action without new evidence.
The supermarket worker, denies any wrongdoing.
In his ruling Mr Justice Jackson said: ‘P [Poppi] suffered injuries causing substantial bleeding from the anus and that she collapsed for no plausible reason. The only explanation for those stubborn facts is that she suffered anal penetration and the only person who could realistically have done this to her was her father.
He added: ‘I find that the father perpetrated a penetrative anal assault on P [Poppi], either using his penis or some other unidentified object’.
A statement released by Mr Worthington’s lawyers said afterwards’: ‘Mr Worthington does not accept the findings of the court’.
The ruling was released months after a fresh inquest was ordered into the death of 13-month-old Poppi.
The decision meant more than two years of official silence over the case would be broken.
Poppi died in December 2012 but the public were told nothing about what happened to her or how social workers and police handled the affair.
There was an initial seven-minute inquest in October 2015 during which Cumbria coroner Ian Smith gave no information about the circumstances leading to the girl’s death. It simply found that her death was ‘unascertained’.
Last week he avoided 252 questions about her death – but chose to answer one to describe the 13-month-old as a ‘bully’.
Paul Worthington, who is accused of sexually assaulting the toddler before she died, sobbed as he refused to say why the toddler’s DNA was found on his genitals.
He dodged 183 questions at the inquest into Poppi’s death – in addition to the 69 he refused to answer on Wednesday.
But he did respond when asked to describe his daughter, saying: ‘Lively. Bubbly. The happy one out of the siblings. Bully, in her own little way.’
Mr Worthington, who gave evidence screened from the public and flanked by police officers armed with Tasers, became agitated yesterday as he was asked about events in the hours before Poppi died.
Alison Hewitt, counsel to the inquest, asked why the toddler’s DNA was found on his genitals on the day of her death, but he refused to answer.
The father previously told a family court hearing that his fingers were in Poppi’s mouth and that he then went to the toilet.
Yesterday he was asked whether he ‘penetrated’ his daughter himself or with an object. He again dodged the question
Poppi’s mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, sat in the hearing in Kendal, Cumbria, with her head in her hands for much of her former partner’s testimony before leaving.
Coroner David Roberts made a final appeal for answers before Mr Worthington finished his evidence. He said: ‘You were an adult in this house, as well as Poppi’s father, so you are well placed to give me information if you want to. This is an opportunity for you to tell me anything that may… help me find how your daughter came by her death.
‘I don’t want you to go without having that opportunity. Is there anything else you would like to tell me?’ Mr Worthington replied: ‘No, sir.’
Poppi’s father answered 40 questions put to him, but dodged the rest by citing ‘Rule 22’, which allows witnesses at inquests to avoid incriminating themselves.
A family court judge has previously ruled that Mr Worthington probably sexually assaulted his daughter before she collapsed at home in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, on December 12, 2012.
But the former supermarket worker escaped prosecution because of a bungled police investigation. Key evidence, including Poppi’s last nappies, the pyjama bottoms she was wearing and a computer Mr Worthington used to watch pornography, were lost.
This is Poppi’s cot that she slept in on the nights before she perished
This is the sofa where paramedics tried to resuscitate Poppi, but she couldn’t be saved
The clothes taken from Poppi at the Furness General Hospital on December 12 2012
Worthington left the inquest with his face down in the seats of his car as it emerged he is in witness protection after receiving threats
Former police officer Lindsey Bolton told the hearing that the laptop Mr Worthington used to watch ‘adult X-rated’ porn in bed on the night Poppi died was never recovered by police and there were no ‘proactive’ attempts by officers to trace it.
Mr Worthington told her he had sold the laptop to a man in nearby Millom and he would try to get it back. Asked if he had made any efforts to retrieve it, Miss Bolton replied: ‘Not to my knowledge.’
Poppi’s mother told the inquest earlier this week that she was asleep downstairs when she heard a scream. Minutes later Mr Worthington rushed in holding his lifeless daughter and shouting to his ex-partner to call for an ambulance. Poppi died just over an hour later at Furness General Hospital.
In a fact-finding judgment as part of care proceedings involving Poppi’s siblings, family court judge Mr Justice Peter Jackson, now Lord Justice Peter Jackson, said Poppi’s ‘significant bleeding’ could only be sensibly explained as being the result of penetrative trauma.
Mr Worthington has never been charged and denies responsibility for his daughter’s death. The inquest continues.