Girl, six, crushed by electronic gates near home

THE mother of a little girl crushed to death by an electronic gate has spoken of her agony at failing to save her.

Six-year-old Semelia Campbell was playing with a friend near her home on Carnival Place, Moss Side, Manchester, on Monday night when the motorised gate closed on her.

Her mother Judith Gilroy was among the first on the scene and she tried in vain to free her daughter who was pinned against a brick post.