One Mother. Two Babies. Seventeen Days / Louise Porton
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In January 2018, in a quiet flat in Rugby, a three-year-old girl stopped breathing. Her mother, Louise Porton, told paramedics she had simply found her daughter in bed, unresponsive. No obvious cause of death was found. Seventeen days later, the child’s sister was dead too. Both girls, described by those who knew them as golden, were gone. Porton insisted their deaths were unexplained, but evidence from her mobile phone told a different story…
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains distressing themes, profanity and descriptions of violence. |
| 0:11.6 | This podcast is intended for a mature audience. |
| 0:15.8 | Listener caution is advised. |
| 0:21.5 | In January 2018, paramedics were called to a property in Rugby, Warwickshire, |
| 0:28.3 | as a young mother had reported that her three-year-old daughter had stopped breathing. |
| 0:34.0 | 17 days later, they were called out again by the same person for the same terrifying reason, |
| 0:40.3 | this time involving the young woman's 17-month-old daughter. |
| 0:45.3 | What detectives later discovered on the woman's mobile phone would reveal a truth far darker than anyone suspected. |
| 0:53.3 | She's repeatedly lied to friends, family and professionals to cover her tracks. |
| 0:58.2 | At no point throughout the whole investigation was she shown any real signs of emotion. |
| 1:03.3 | Welcome to Season 11, Episode 7 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime. |
| 1:17.8 | David Woods Thomas was the first paramedic to arrive at the scene just four minutes after a |
| 1:23.8 | 999 call was made on January 4th. |
| 1:31.9 | A child at Parkside Guest House in Rugby had stopped breathing. |
| 1:37.0 | David was guided to the room by the emergency operator's directions. |
| 1:47.0 | The young woman stood by the rear wall, indicating towards a bed were a child lay unresponsive. The mother explained her three-year-old daughter Lexi had suffered a fit for the second time in two days. Lexi's ears, nose and mouth |
| 1:54.3 | had turned blue, indicating a lack of oxygen, but David wasn't able to check inside her mouth |
| 2:00.5 | for airway obstruction because her |
| 2:02.5 | jaw had locked. Her body was floppy, a respiratory rate low. David listened to her chest. |
| 2:11.2 | Her breathing was crackily suggestive of congestion or aspiration. Lexi didn't respond to any stimulation. |
| 2:19.3 | She was a time-critical patient, and the ambulance crew who was speeding to the scene |
| 2:24.1 | were informed of the situation. |
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