An eight-year-old girl plunged about 150ft to her death from a tower block as she tried to talk to a friend.
Leanne Minick was leaning out of her bedroom window when she tumbled out of her flat on the 15th floor and landed on the pavement below.
Passers-by were alerted by the screaming of her mother Claire Sicberras.
The housewife and her partner, Ian Whitmore, were quickly on the scene and have been left heartbroken by her death.
A neighbour and friend of the family said Leanne had been trying to talk to a friend on the ground when she fell from the block in Bow, East London.
She said: ‘I heard shouting outside, looked out my window and saw Leanne’s mum and dad downstairs.
Leanne fell from her bedroom window. She was leaning out talking to somebody, got too confident and fell.’
A passer-by alerted emergency services. Leanne was taken by helicopter to the Royal London Hospital but was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.
A friend of the family said he was alerted to the accident after hearing Leanne’s mother sobbing outside.
The 34-year-old said: ‘I heard her mum screaming and looked out of the window and then saw her body lying on the ground.
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