This is the 'cage bed' where tragic Ellie May Minshull-Coyle was tied up before her death.
The images have been released by police as the toddler's mum Lauren Coyle and her boyfriend Reece Hitchcott were jailed for 10 years each for causing her death by neglect.
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Liverpool Crown Court had heard how on the night of her death, blankets and ligatures were used to tie little Ellie May to the monstrous contraption. A duvet was then placed over her, meaning she could not properly regulate her body temperature. At some point during the night of March 22 to 23, she stopped breathing and her heart stopped.
She was taken by ambulance from her home in Lostock Hall, near Preston, but died at hospital.
Coyle, 19, and her 20-year-old boyfriend Reece Hitchcott were found guilty at a trial last month of causing or allowing Ellie May's death and child neglect but were cleared of manslaughter.
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