A BABY died after she rolled out of her parents' bed and was trapped against a wall while her mother slept.

Marley Wallace's death on February 7 last year was a tragic double blow for her family, after her mum Kelly, 28, had suffered a miscarriage just two days earlier.

Dad Kenroy Wallace, also 28, discovered his 10-month-old daughter lifeless after he returned to the family's home in Lennox Gardens, Banbury.

It appears she had somehow moved off the bed and become trapped while her mother slept, an inquest heard.

Mr Wallace said: "I could only see her chest, her body was upright and her head was leaning to one side.

"I started screaming: 'There's something wrong with the baby'.

"I leant over and pulled her out of the gap by her arms."

Mrs Wallace called an ambulance and her husband tried to resuscitate the baby until paramedics arrived, but she was pronounced dead at the Horton Hospital in Banbury.

In a statement read out at Oxfordshire Coroner's Court on Tuesday, Mrs Wallace said she and her husband often slept with Marley in their bed.

On the night of the accident, she had taken the baby to bed at about 10.30pm and put a pillow either side of her.

The police were called as standard procedure but could find no evidence of foul play, Dc Paul Girling told the inquest.

Dr Steve Gould, who carried out a post mortem, said the most likely cause of death was acute positional asphyxia.

He said: "Marley was wedged between the wall and the bed, which would have interfered with her breathing and chest expansion.

"I think that is sufficient to be a cause of death."

He added that Marley had bronchial pneumonia, which was a contributory factor to her death.

Deputy coroner Dorothy Flood recorded a verdict of misadventure.

She said: "We can't be specific as to what happened but something in the way Marley was wedged down the side of the bed interfered with her breathing.

Mrs Flood also warned parents against allowing their children to sleep in bed with them.

She said: "If they are in a double bed, their room for movement is greater.

"Unfortunately children get more agile than parents expect.

"It seems in this case Marley got down on the bed by her mother who was asleep and not aware she had got herself wedged down the side of the bed.

"It is particularly sad and tragic when you take into account just before Mrs Wallace had suffered a miscarriage."