Girl, 8, finds mother's body

AN eight-year-old girl found her mother dead on the living room floor of their South Yorkshire home.

Bethany-May Hamer had been staying at her grandmother's house nearby, along with her brother Jake, four, when she made the shocking discovery.

The little girl had gone back home to ask her mother Marie Hamer, 29, if she could play outdoors with friends.

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Bethany-May and Jake both lived with their mother in Houghton Road, Thurnscoe, Barnsley, but often stayed at their grandmother Elaine Hamer's house nearby.

Mrs Hamer, 61, said: "It didn't register at first. I just thought she had collapsed. They came back down running and screaming that she wasn't breathing."

A South Yorkshire Police spokesman said the death was not being treated as suspicious. The results of a post-mortem examination were inconclusive and toxicology tests are being carried out.