Ava-May Littleboy coroner calls for tighter safety controls after girl’s death in Gorleston, Norfolk

A coroner has called for action following the death of a three-year-old girl who suffered traumatic head injuries when she was thrown from an ‘exploding’ inflatable trampoline. Ava-May Littleboy, from Lower Somersham, Suffolk, was hurled from the inflatable seaside play equipment which ‘exploded’ on the beach at Gorleston, Norfolk, in July 2018. She was rushed … Read more

Funfair worker tried to catch Ava-May Littleboy as she was thrown from inflatable trampoline

Family members watched in horror as a three-year-old girl was ‘thrown higher than a house’ as an inflatable trampoline exploded, an inquest heard today.  Ava-May Littleboy was playing on the trampoline on the beach at Gorleston, Norfolk when it exploded beneath her with a loud bang, ‘like someone had set off a cannon’.  Little Ava-May was … Read more