Overview

• Cleveland Police say officers responded to welfare concerns at a home on Hartington Close on 13 September and the child died shortly after arriving at hospital, with the death treated as unexplained as enquiries continue.
• Alexandra Walker, 25, and Harrison Simpson, 21, have been charged with murder and causing or allowing the death of a child, and Simpson also faces a rape charge.
• Both defendants appeared via video link last week and were remanded in custody pending the plea and trial preparation hearing set for 6 November.
• Recorder of Middlesbrough Judge Francis Laird lifted a reporting restriction, allowing the child to be publicly identified as Isabelle Rose Welsh.
• Isabelle’s family paid tribute, sharing that she was “always full of smiles” and loved Peppa Pig and dancing, while around 200 people attended a candlelit vigil and floral tributes were left outside the home.