Video shows killer mum of Isabelle Welsh smoking as daughter lay dying

Alexandra Walker had woken up following a heavy night on the booze to find her daughter seriously ill after she had been sexually and violently assaulted by her boyfriend, Harrison Simpson.

The 26-year-old picked up Isabelle Welsh’s floppy body but instead of immediately calling for emergency help she took the opportunity to have a final cigarette and tidy away her boyfriend’s bong.

Her shocking actions were all caught on CCTV inside her own home.

On Thursday (July 30), Welsh and Simpson were jailed for life for murder with minimum terms of 22 and 28 years respectively.

Isabelle Welsh (left) and her murderers Alexandra Walker (top right) and Harrison Simpson (bottom right). (Image: NORTHERN ECHO)

During her trial for the murder of her two-year-old daughter, Walker was captured regularly getting drunk while her boyfriend smoked drugs into the early hours, including the night before her daughter was fatally injured.

When Walker eventually got out of bed, she found her daughter seriously ill and carried out an internet search asking why Isabelle could have blood in her nappy.

The heartless mum laid her daughter on the floor at the foot of the stairs before moving Simpson’s bong and having a smoke in the kitchen.

It took her almost an hour to call her stepfather for help, and when he arrived at her home on Hartington Close, Thornaby, he immediately demanded she call 999.

Isabelle Rose Welsh (Image: Family handout)

Despite the best efforts of paramedics and specialist hospital staff Isabelle never regained consciousness after suffering a severe bleed on the brain after he head was smashed against a hard object.

Sentencing Walker, the judge, the Honourable Ms Justice Norton, said: “You deliberately delayed getting help again for at least an hour on the day that Isabelle collapsed.

Tributes on Hartington Close in Thornaby (Image: TERRY BLACKBURN)

“Instead, of calling the emergency services or doing anything whatsoever to help your dying child, you put her on the floor, cleared away evidence of Harrison Simpson’s cannabis use and went into the kitchen or garden to smoke two cigarettes.

“I have no doubt whatsoever that your lack of urgency or concern for your child was because you wrongly believed that Isabelle was already dead, and you were working out what to do to save your own skin.

“Rather than phoning the emergency services, you made repeated attempts to contact Harrison Simpson. Indeed, as you told the jury, the reason why you did eventually call for an ambulance was because you realised that it was a very bad situation that you (not Isabelle) were in.”

Walker was jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years on Thursday, July 30, after she was convicted of murder and child cruelty.

Meanwhile, Simpson, 22, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 28 years after he was convicted of the same charges as well sexually assaulting the toddler.