THE inquest into the death of six-year-old Isabelle Harris, who died at a New Forest campsite on Good Friday, will be opened today.
It will be held at the Coroner’s Court in Southampton.
The inquest will formally identify Isabelle and record that there is no current cause of death.
Isabelle’s family, including parents Lee and Tracey Harris, will not be attending. The six-year-old from Gosport was staying at Holmsley campsite near Bransgore when she started “fitting and not breathing” in her tent just after midnight on Friday.
Her parents frantically tried to resuscitate her before paramedics arrived and took her to South-ampton General Hospital.
However, en route to the hospital, the youngster suffered a cardiac arrest and died shortly afterwards.
A post-mortem on Friday failed to reveal an exact cause of death and officers are now awaiting the results of toxicology tests.
One line of enquiry police are following is carbon monoxide poisoning from a barbecue.
The family are understood to have had a barbecue on Thursday afternoon before the girl died.
It is unsure how close to the tent the barbecue was.
Isabelle’s parents, Lee, 30 and Tracey, 40, were initially arrested on suspicion of murder but released without charge later that day. Police said they were treating Isabelle’s death as a “tragic incident”.
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