The mum of a four-week-old baby who died wedged between a bed and a wall has described living with the tragedy as “no big deal”.

Kim Smart-Neil, 32, had moved back to her native Northampton from Blackpool, Lancashire, following the Christmas 2014 tragedy, having separated from Freddie’s dad, Matthew Neil.

But after she escaped prosecution for Freddie’s death this week, her fresh start has suffered a setback.

She told The Sun: “It was no big deal until it all came out again and also it’s all very biased.

"I came down here to get away from it all - I’m doing pretty well. Life was going pretty sweet until all this came out again. I moved away and it’s all followed me.”

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Tragic: Baby Freddie was declared dead on Boxing Day after being found wedged between his older brother’s bed and a wall (SWNS)



Baby Freddie was found dead at home in Blackpool on Boxing Day 2014. His body was on the floor between a wall and the bed in his brother Alex’s bedroom.

His parents had been on an all-day booze bender the day before his death, and were arrested and charged with neglect and manslaughter.

But the charges were later dropped after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) ruled there was not enough evidence.

Having separated from her husband of four years, Mrs Smart-Neil moved back with her parents to the village of Blissworth, Northamptonshire, and found work as a barmaid in the Walnut Tree pub.

Yesterday, speaking for the first time since the tragedy, she said: “I’ve had a lot of counselling since it happened. I just have to accept it and it will wash over.

"I just have to deal with the people who come into the bar where I work and read all the papers.

"But the people who matter don’t care and the people who care about it don’t matter.”

She explained that she has an amicable relationship with the Freddie’s father, and still speaks to him.

She added: "I’m not an alcoholic and I only had two drinks on that evening.

"My ex-partner has a drink problem but he’s a functioning alcoholic and you can’t tell he’s drunk. On that evening I just thought he’d gone to sleep.

"It’s been made out that we were totally pissed in the papers but we weren’t.

"All the pictures of us at the race courses with drinks were taken seven years ago before we even had kids.”

Smart-Neil spoke just a two days after the Blackpool Safeguarding Children Board published a serious case review of the tragedy.

It found that she and her alcoholic husband had spent the previous 24-hours downing alcohol in a pub and with friends at their home in the town.

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