Sunbathing stab girl remembered

Rosie would have been 20 on Friday

A 16-year-old girl who was stabbed to death while she sunbathed in Birmingham is being remembered by the medical staff who tried to save her.

The life of Rosie Ross, from Aldridge, West Midlands, is being celebrated at Birmingham's City Hospital on what would have been her 20th birthday.

Staff are collecting money for a charity in the teenager's memory and meeting her parents, Karen and Sean.

Rosie was killed in Centenary Square by a paranoid schizophrenic man in 2001.

The charity, Rosie's Helping Hands, has raised more than £120,000 since 2001 and the City Hospital has received £42,000 to buy equipment for the A&E department and theatres.

Rosie's death had a big impact on staff and we're keen to do all we can to show our support to the family Spokesman Paul Scott

Mrs Ross said: "We realised we wanted to do something for City Hospital - the surgeons and A&E.

"They worked really hard to try to save Rosie and she would have wanted us to give something back. She wouldn't want us to be miserable and down.

"She would want something good to come out of this. She was that sort of person."

The hospital's operational manager, Paul Scott, said: "The staff are really looking forward to being able to do something to help.

"Rosie's death had a big impact on staff and we're keen to do all we can to show our support to the family."

Inderjit Kainth admitted Rosie's manslaughter in December 2001 and was ordered to be detained indefinitely at a secure hospital.