Deputy manager at the former Tiny Toes Day Nursery Kate Roughley is beginning a 14-year sentence for manslaughter. Here, court reporter Amy Walker takes readers inside the ex-daycare facility, where disorder and confusion culminated in the death of a nine-month-old girl.
Off a busy main road in the leafy Stockport suburb of Cheadle Hulme, sat a nursery that would become the scene of an unthinkable tragedy. Adorned with flashes of bright green - and portraits of smiling babies - images of the daycare facility would, following the death of an nine-month-old girl, appear on news websites and social media feeds across the UK.
Roughley, 37, in her role as 'baby room leader', swaddled the child before placing her face down on a beanbag, strapping her down with a harness and leaving her for an hour-and-a-half. Baby Genevieve, nicknamed 'Gigi' by her family, died from asphyxia and 'pathophysiological stress' caused by an unsafe sleeping environment.
"We couldn't see what was going on in there," he added. "Now we know." The nursery is now being run by a new provider, it is understood. Tiny Toes signs have been taken down. Ms Goldsby said the bean bag had 'little straps on the front so you could secure them in'. Martin Reid KC said: "How did you understand a baby would be placed in it?" She replied: "Facing forward."
'Queues of parents 20 to 30 deep' Another parent, whose son went to the nursery, told the M.E.N: "We would drop him off and he would scream all the time. We thought it was separation anxiety and being around new people, due to him being a lockdown baby. There were always queues of parents picking up their children, 20 to 30 people deep.
"My son wasn't being interacted with. He always gets upset when we try to speak to him about it. He was left on his own." On the morning of May 9, 2022, Genevieve was dropped off by her parents Katie Wheeler and John Meehan. "What?," her colleague asked. "She's not breathing," Roughley repeated. The child was carried to a playmat, where four members of staff attempted to resuscitate her before paramedics arrived and took over.
She said she would 'sing or chant' as a coping mechanism, insisting there was no malice or intent behind the comments she made. Tiny Toes nursery's licence to operate was suspended by Ofsted the day after Genevieve died. Stockport council confirmed it is responsible for investigations and enforcement of the provisions in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, in respect of accident or death in a childcare setting. The town hall said it has been working with Greater Manchester Police since 2022 and that its investigation will continue following the conclusion of the trial.
Mrs Justice Ellenbogen, sentencing Roughley, was clear in her assessment of the case. "She died whilst in your charge," she told her. The judge added: "During the afternoon, you put Genevieve down to sleep on a beanbag, tightly swaddled her, restricting her ability to move and placed a blanket over her.
"From the CCTV it is apparent, at best, you considered Genevieve to be a nuisance and displayed apathy towards her. On May 9m you berated her for only sleeping for 20 minutes, having called her 'vile'. 'She was discussed as a piece of evidence - she was a person' Mum Ms Wheeler said of Roughley in a statement read at the sentencing hearing: "She has lied throughout this trial. We found her evidence without compassion grossly insulting, and had to listen to lie after lie about Genevieve.
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