A MOTHER subjected to a horrific hate campaign over the death of her baby spoke out after an inquest ruled the tragedy was an accident saying: ''Now the world knows I didn't murder her.''

Victoria Parkington woke to find six-month-old daughter Emma Gibson dead at her home in Sale shortly after she cradled the tot in her bed.

In a tragic accident, the baby fell after the 19-year-old mum went back to sleep and suffocated on the floor.

Victoria woke to hear her other daughter, two-year-old Sabrina, screaming after the toddler stumbled across her sister's body.

But the grief-stricken teenager's nightmare continued when she was bombarded with abusive phone calls from mystery women who claimed she had murdered Emma.

Yesterday, after a coroner ruled that child's death was an accident, Victoria spoke of her ordeal - and urged other parents not to allow their children to cuddle up to them in bed.

She said: ''I've gone through seven months of hell. The phone calls never stopped and were littered with swear words and anger. One woman shouted 'You killed your baby and now you'll get what's coming to you'.

''I don't know who it was and the police could never trace their calls. I had lost my beautiful daughter and then all that happened. It was a nightmare.

''Every day I think that I shouldn't have taken her into my bed. She couldn't rest and had been crying. It seemed like the right thing to do. Now I have to live with this for the rest of my life.''

The inquest at Trafford magistrates, in Sale, was told Emma fell and suffocated after she became wedged face down on a carpeted floor in a 12-inch gap between the bed and her cot at the family house in Haydock Avenue.

Emma's dad Stan Gibson, sleeping in another room, tried in vain to revive the tot, who died in April. Police investigated and concluded Emma's death was an accident.

South Manchester deputy coroner Jennifer Leeming said: ''This was an accident - there is no other conclusion I can come to.''

Today the couple, who have since split, joined together to warn parents over the dangers of sleeping with their children in bed. Their tearful appeal was backed by safety chiefs.

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