A woman who was looking after a six-year-old girl who drowned at a seaside resort has described "breaking down crying" as she was told about her death.
Dajahnel Young, from Erith, south-east London, was seen floating lifeless in the sea at 3.13pm after being reported missing in Margate, Kent, during a summer trip with friends from her local church on July 28 last year.
She was pronounced dead at hospital after failed attempts to resuscitate her.
At an inquest in The Guildhall, Sandwich, Cynthia Robinson, a friend of the girl's mother who had been entrusted to look after Dajahnel, said she last saw the six-year-old after she wet herself.
Dajahnel had just walked back from the water after being with Mrs Robinson's husband Roy and the other children.
"She said she wanted to wee, but by the time (she walked back to me) it looked like she waited until she was bursting - so she (wet) herself," said Mrs Robinson.
Mrs Robinson told the inquest that she said to Dajahnel that when the trip was finished, she would change her.
After that interaction, Mrs Robinson said she went into her tent to find her phone so she could take a video of the trip.
But after coming out of the tent with the phone while filming, Mrs Robinson said she noticed Dajahnel was not there.
Mrs Robinson said she cut the video "prematurely" and went to look for Dajahnel.
She said she asked her husband, who was looking after some of the other children closer to the water on the beach, if he knew where Dajahnel was.
He replied that the six-year-old was with Mrs Robinson.
Mrs Robinson went to a lifeguard to ask for help.
She said: "I told him (Dajahnel) is missing. He asked me where she was last seen, I told him where. He said, it's very shallow there so nobody can (come to any harm).
"So he took me towards the funfair, further away from where my tent was.
"I wanted him to use the (loud speaker), but he said if they call, anyone can see her and snatch her away."
After walking "for a while", Mrs Robinson said the lifeguard told her there was "a situation" and took her back to the lifeguard stand.
At the stand, police were there waiting for her.
She said: "I was relieved, I thought the police had come to help look for her.
"Then I hear one of the policemen say which hospital she is in. I said to them, 'Please tell me she is OK, please tell me she is OK'.
"I break down and start crying. Then he turned to me and said, 'We are doing what we can for her' and then they took me to the hospital."
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"They wanted me to come and see if I could identify if the girl at the hospital was (Dajahnel), who was still on a life support machine," she added.
"But they said they had to drop the support. Something about her lungs.
"I said I was not strong enough to identify her body. My husband went and said to me that it was her.
"Police got in contact with the mum, the support machine was off.
"Everybody was crying."
At the inquest hearing on Monday, Dajahnel's mother Camille Remekie said she told Mrs Robinson that she did not want her daughter in the water because it was "dirty".
Mrs Robinson denied that the mother told her this.
The inquest continues.
The Press Association contributed to this report.
