A TEENAGE girl whose young brother accidentally hanged himself used her mobile phone to FILM the tragedy, cops have revealed. Regina Boateng, 14, reportedly shot footage as brother Rexford dangled limply in his bedroom before paramedics arrived.
It is believed a game went tragically wrong. Police are investigating after a post-mortem revealed the lad, eight, died from asphyxiation.
His brother Eric, 16, found him hanging by a belt from a bunk bed.
A neighbour, who asked not to be named, said cops told him Regina filmed Rexford after he was discovered hanging.
He said: I cannot begin to think why she would have done that surely she should have been trying to get him down from the bunk bed with her other brother.
I asked the policeman if he knew why on earth she had done it but he wouldnt say much more about it.
He told me it was 14-year-old girl using her mobile phone and that it was part of the police investigation.
Another neighbour, John ODell, 81, said: The policeman told me they were throwing the bed clothes around and the eight-year-old boy got hanged.
Paramedics spent four minutes trying to revive Rexford in the upstairs bedroom before taking him to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The schoolboy lived with dad Joseph, stepmum Cheryl Brunker, brother Eric and sisters Perpetua, 15, Regina and Josephina, 12.
Neighbours said the children were very loud and noisy and a regular source of complaints in the street in Hemel Hempstead, Herts.
It was claimed the youngsters often played outside until 11.30pm.
Blinds were pulled across the windows at the house yesterday, following the tragedy on Saturday.
Rexford was a Year 3 pupil at Hobletts Manor Junior School. The family recently moved from Telford, Shropshire.
A Hertfordshire Police spokesman said a full investigation was taking place but added: It appears this was a tragic accident. An inquest was due to be opened today.