Inquiry into NI toddler death

Police in Northern Ireland are continuing to question a 30-year-old man about the death of a 15-month-old girl injured in an …

Police in Northern Ireland are continuing to question a 30-year-old man about the death of a 15-month-old girl injured in an alleged assault on Thursday.

Millie Martin died in intensive care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast after being hurt in Co Fermanagh.

Police are not releasing the results of a post mortem examination which was carried out on her body yesterday for operational reasons.

After an application to Omagh court yesterday, officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s (PSNI) serious crime unit were granted an extra 36 hours to question the man.

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A house at Glebe Park in the Chanterhill area of Enniskillen remains sealed off for technical examination by forensic experts.

The child was first admitted to the Erne Hospital in Enniskillen last night

before being transferred to Belfast. Western Health Trust staff are assisting police.

Local SDLP Assembly member Tommy Gallagher said: “My thoughts go out to the family. There is a great sense of shock and anger about this. The whole thing is playing out very badly.”

Glebe Park is a residential area of the lakeside town on the road to Tempo.