A NEIGHBOURHOOD in Trowbridge has been rocked by the death of a four-year-old girl who plunged 20ft from a first floor window.

Jackie-Danielle Velvick lost her battle for life on Monday night after spending a week in intensive care units in Bath and Bristol.

Mother-of-three Cher kept a round-the-clock vigil at her daughter's bedside as surgeons tried to save her life.

But head injuries suffered in the accident at the family home in Longfield Road proved too serious and the schoolgirl died at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Bristol, seven days after the fall.

Neighbours spoke of their sadness at the young girls death, which has affected a whole community.

One said: "Jackie-Danielle was a beautiful little girl, she was very adventurous.

"I suppose she was like a normal four-year-old girl. We are very upset for Cher and her two boys. It has left everyone shocked.

"Our thoughts are with the family."

Another mother, living close-by, said the accident had made her paranoid for her own children's safety.

"I used to see Jackie-Danielle go past my window. She was a very sweet girl. It is very, very sad."

Jackie-Danielle suffered critical head injuries when she tumbled out of her elder brother's bedroom window while playing a game of hide-and-seek.

The Longmeadow Primary School pupil lost her balance hiding behind a curtain and toppled backwards out of an open window onto a concrete path below.

Her mother found her in a pool of blood and called paramedics.

At first she was rushed to the Royal United Hospital in Bath but later transferred to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol so specialist surgeons could operate.

Later in the week she was moved to the intensive care unit at the Bristol-based children's hospital where she died.

Cllr Grace Hill, a governor at Jackie-Danielle's primary school, said her schoolmates would be devastated by the news.

"It will be heard to break it to the pupils when they come back to school. It is a horrible situation for any school and I plan to go round and offer her parents my condolences.

"I know what it is like to lose a child as my son died in a motorbike accident 20-years ago.

"You never expect a child to die. It will be like the end of the world to them.

"It is so tragic especially when I think my children used to like hide-and-seek and had great fun doing it."

Jackie-Danielle was in the reception class at the Broadcloth Lane school after starting in September.

Jackie-Danielle's two brothers stayed with their grandmother in Trowbridge while their mother kept a bedside vigil.

An inquest was due to be opened by the District of Avon coroner on Wednesday afternoon.

The inquest will be held in Bristol and not Wiltshire because that is where Jackie-Danielle died.