CLUTCHING photos and keepsakes of her precious four-year-old girl, Trowbridge mum Cher Velvick vowed this week never to return to the house where her daughter died.

Speaking for the first time since pretty schoolgirl Jackie-Danielle plunged 20ft out of a first-floor window, Miss Velvick said she would never go back to the home she once shared with her three children.

Watching life ebb away from a daughter so full of energy, character and love is the most painful thing a parent could ever have to go through.

From the moment Jackie-Danielle fell out of a bedroom window at the family's Longfield Road home, watched helplessly by her older brother Jordan, life for the Velvick family changed for good.

Adding to the agony the family have to wait up to nine weeks for a funeral so post mortem examinations can be carried out on the four-year-old's brain.

Miss Velvick, 28, is determined to stay at her mother's home with her two sons Jordan, nine, and Brandon, seven, until a new home can be found for the family.

"I have not been down that road since Jackie died. The boys will not go back there and I don't want to make them. Every time they walk past the house they will think of their sister on the ground.

"They said we could bury her without the brain but I could not do it. She came into the world complete and she will go out the same way."

Mystery surrounds the fall at the family home three days before Christmas, with no one exactly sure how Jackie-Danielle fell out of a window her older brother vows he closed.

"Jordan is adamant he shut the window but Jackie could open them. He walked into the room and she fell backwards, that is all we can say," Miss Velvick said.

"My youngest son heard her fall on the floor and said he wished he could have gone out and caught her.

"As much as I beat myself up, I have to accept it was just an accident.

"When Jordan told me what happened, I was straight out on the drive where she was laying on the concrete.

"I picked her up and kept her straight. I was calling her name and she was moaning a bit."

Rushed to the Royal United Hospital in Bath, Jackie-Danielle was stabilised and taken by ambulance to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol, where brain surgeons carried out two life-saving operations.

Transferred later in the week to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Miss Velvick learned the true severity of her daughter's injuries, tearing her world apart.

"From then on it was a case of when, not if. They always told me the odds were against her but she was fighting as hard as she could," she said.

On Christmas Day surgeons told the family Jackie-Danielle had two hours to live, but the brave schoolgirl fought back to keep her grip on life for four more days.

Her father Christopher Terry joined Miss Velvick at their daughter's bedside as doctors switched-off the ventilation system keeping her alive. At the end it was just me and her dad. The boys had a chance to cuddle and kiss her. I shed tears in the room but I did not want to be a blubbering mess because of the boys," said Miss Velvick.

"It has helped to concentrate on them. If it were not for them I would find it hard to carry on."

Miss Velvick said: "Very rarely did you see her in a bad mood, miserable or grumpy. Jackie would always make you giggle about something."

"Her brothers were very protective of her and she was of them. She was a bit of tomboy but had a girly side."

Police have carried out an investigation but all the signs point to a tragic chain of events that claimed the life of a girl who will be remembered forever by family, friends and everyone she met.