Toddler died after falling from a first-floor window in Tuebrook.

The mum of a toddler who died after falling from a first-floor window had left him playing upstairs for just seconds, an inquest has heard.

Two-year-old T-Jay Dedman died in hospital six days after suffering traumatic head injuries in the fall, which happened on November 17 last year.

The hearing at the Gerard Majella Courthouse in Liverpool was told on Wednesday that he and his mother Chelsey Wall, 26, had been visiting her friend's home on Fairburn Street, Tuebrook, in the afternoon when the accident happened.

Miss Wall, who attended the inquest with her father and brother, had been with T-Jay and her friend's three children while her friend left to go to the shop.

In statements, she said she had tried to get her son and her friend's two-year-old child to come out of the bedroom, where T-Jay was playing on a rocking horse, and then went downstairs to check on her friend's seven-year-old daughter who was making a gingerbread house.

Coroner Andre Rebello said: "A member of the public then knocked on the front door stating that she had found T-Jay outside on the floor crying and it appeared he'd fallen out of the window.''

Miss Wall, who was in tears during the inquest, said: "Literally within seconds the door knocked.''

Mr Rebello said: "T-Jay had been playing in the bedroom and it is unclear how the window was open, however the window restrictor device was broken, enabling him to fall.''

The court heard the broken window restrictor had been reported to the landlord in early November, but had not yet been fixed.

Miss Wall said the window had not been open when she left the room.

The coroner said: "This was an accident and I am going to record it as an accidental death.''

Speaking after the inquest, Miss Wall, who now lives in Cornwall, paid tribute to the toddler.

She said: "He changed my life. It gives me strength to know he is watching me and I'll carry him in my heart till I die.

"He made an impact on everyone he met.''

She said the toddler was a "miracle'' baby as she had believed she was unable to have children.

She said: "I didn't know what love was until I had a baby.''

Mr Rebello told the family: "It is very difficult in two years to go from one of the happiest things you can do to have to bury a child.

"During that time there will have been so much joy and happiness that should never be forgotten because that was T-Jay, not the tragedy and trauma that has occurred since November.''

The court heard T-Jay was taken by ambulance to Alder Hey Children's Hospital and was initially stable, but his condition deteriorated and he died on November 23