Overview
- Police found four‑year‑old Cleo Rose Catterall unresponsive at a Lowood home late on Monday and she was declared dead at the scene.
- Detectives from the Ipswich Criminal Investigation Branch charged 31‑year‑old nurse Jessie Renee Phillips with one count of murder listed as a domestic violence offence and remanded her in custody at an Ipswich court.
- The house remains a crime scene while forensic teams work and a post‑mortem has been ordered to determine the cause and manner of death.
- Some media reports say police are probing whether the child was drowned and that Child Safety had prior contact with the family, but those details have not been verified by police.
- Senior officials expressed sorrow and called for a full inquiry, and police have appealed for any witnesses or residents with CCTV to come forward as the case proceeds to committal in mid‑June.