A MUM left a note saying "look after my girl" before leaping off a cliff to her death in front of the eight-year-old.

Tansy Langton asked a ranger where the highest point was before jumping.

She put a note with contact details in daughter Olivias pocket. Then, leaving the girl 30ft away on the path, she edged herself off the cliff on her backside.

Plunge ... the cliffs where she died

Olivia was found wandering distraught near the 120ft drop on Dorsets Jura**ic Coast by a walker and a police officer. In a tragic twist, rescuers were just 900 yards away trying to save a climber who was also killed falling off the cliff.

An inquest yesterday heard how Tansy, 50, had been depressed before visiting Anvil Point near Swanage.

Witness Darren Bellamy, who had been watching the climbers rescue through binoculars, said: "I became aware of another person shuffling towards the edge of the cliff. She started to slide down the gra**, turned and put her hands out and then looked to have gone into the air."

PC Mari Montgomery told the Bournemouth hearing she was on patrol when she spotted Olivia on January 22.

The girl handed her the note which had contact details for her grandfather and brother. Another note at Tansys Bournemouth home asked that someone look after Olivia - now believed to be living with other members of her family.

Climber Ivan Lissin, 22, hit his head as he fell 30ft into the sea and died the next day. Coroner Sheriff Payne recorded a verdict of suicide on Miss Langton and misadenture on Mr Lissin, of Oxford.