Three-month-old girl dies while ‘camping with family’ in woodland

Josh Milton | Senior science and technology reporter Published September 6, 2026 1:32pm Updated September 6, 2026 1:38pm Police cordoned off a fishing lake in the Wyrley and Essington Branch Canal Local Nature Reserve (Picture: Alamy Live News) A three-month-old girl has died while out camping with her family in a Staffordshire woodland. The youngster experienced cardiac arrest – when the heart suddenly stops beating – near Strawberry Lane, Cheslyn Hay, on Saturday morning. She was declared dead soon after air ambulance crews arrived at 8.45am. The ‘unexplained’ death of the baby girl was an ‘isolated incident’, the force said today. Det Insp Katie Gregory said: ‘While the investigation remains at an early stage, this is an isolated incident and we understand that the child’s family was ca