‘Her d.e.a.t.h still feels and hurts as if it happened yesterday,’ Leah’s mum said
MUM-to-be Leah Roberts lay down for a 30-minute nap in August last year but never woke up.
Three days before she p.a.s.s.e.d a.w.a.y, the 21-year-old woman from Cwmbran, Wales, who was five months pregnant, learned she was having a girl.
She’d already picked out a name for the tot, intending to call her Leena-Rose.
Leah felt unwell on August 1, 2024, while out on a day trip.
She went home to rest but never woke up from her nap.
Martine Roberts, Leah’s mother, hurried to the property with the police, air ambulance, and ambulance service.
Medics fought to revive her for over an hour, but neither Leah nor the baby could be saved.
The cause of her tragic d.e.a.t.h has yet to be determined.
Paying tribute to her daughter a year on from the t.r.a.g.e.d.y, Martine said her grief hurts as though it “happened yesterday”.
“My world changed forever a year ago,” she told WalesOnline. I can’t go a day without thinking of Leah and Leena-Rose.
“I carry them both in my heart and I will always.
“Life will never be the same without Leah. I cherish every video, I cherish every picture and every memory and time we spent together.
“Her death still feels and hurts as if it happened yesterday.
“I always feel guilty when I come back from trips smiling and laughing. But I know Leah was happiest when I was happy. She would cry if I would cry.
“Hopefully she’s up there smiling when I’m smiling.
“I am missing her like crazy – I always will.
“Her five brothers’ lives have been changed forever, losing their only sister and missing becoming uncles to Leena-Rose.”
On August 1 last year, Leah, who was living with her grandparents, cut her day trip short after feeling unwell.
She informed her family that she would be taking a 30-minute nap to recuperate after arriving home early.
A few hours later, her grandfather went to check on her and struggled to wake her.
Concerned, he told her grandmother, who immediately went to Leah’s room and realised something was wrong.
Before the emergency crews arrived, she got her off the bed and started CPR.
But sadly, Leah and the baby couldn’t be saved.
Her exact cause of d.e.a.t.h is yet to be determined.
Leah’s friend Rhiannon Williams said: “I can’t believe it has been a year without our princess Leah.
“Leah, I am missing you so much – this world is so cruel. I will forever be loving you from afar.
“I wish she could just come back and then everything would be okay.”
In the days following Leah’s tragic d.e.a.t.h, she was described by her friend Becky Davies as “the most selfless person you could ever meet in your life”.
“All she wanted was to love and be loved in return,” said Becky.
“Family was a massive thing for her, she would always say she was going to be a mum.
“She used to take my children out, her brothers out.
“She would walk into a room and no matter if she had had a bad day or not she would always ask if you were OK.
“She was just loving, chatty and just funny, she was a massive goofball with a massive heart.”
Leah’s family spent the anniversary of her d.e.a.t.h at the crematorium, remembering Leah and the life she loved to live.
