Seven year old Gianni Cooper, who fell from a fifth floor balcony at the Samoa Hotel near Manacor on the 22nd October, has returned to the UK at the request of her father, Mr Ian Cooper.

Gianni is now conscious and breathing without assistance, but is still in a critical condition according to her doctors at the Son Dureta Hospital in Palma. Gianni's mother, Sara (main photo), who disappeared immediately after her daughter's fall, was found dead in an underwater cave close to Es Domingos beach two days later.

The autopsy confirmed that Mrs Cooper drowned, and it is believed that she committed suicide.

Sara Cooper autopsy suggests suicide
By: thinkSPAIN
Thursday, October 25, 2007

The autopsy performed today on Sara Cooper, whose dead body was found inside a cave near to Es Domingos Gran beach in Manacor at 4.45pm yesterday afternoon, confirms that she drowned.

Investigators now believe that she threw herself into the sea soon after her 7 year old daughter, Gianni, fell from the balcony of the fifth floor room at the Samoa Hotel that she had been sharing with her mother at around 7am last Monday morning.

Gianni survived the fall and is in an induced coma at the Son Dureta Hospital in Palma where her condition is described as critical but stable. If she regains consciousness, her account of the events leading up to her fall will be crucial in clarifying the circumstances leading to her mother's strange disappearance and apparent subsequent suicide.

Police find Sara Cooper's body in sea
By: thinkSPAIN
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

The body of Sara Cooper was found in the sea near Cala Domingos at around 4.45pm this afternoon.

Mrs Cooper went missing early on Monday morning immediately after her seven year old daughter, Gianni, fell from the balcony of the fifth-floor room at the Samoa Hotel near Manacor that she had been sharing with her mother.

Gianni  survived the fall, and is recovering after surgery at Son Dureta Hospital in Palma.

Still no sign of missing mother
By: thinkSPAIN
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

According to reports in the British media, 7 year old Gianna Cooper from Foxton in Cambridgshire is in a "serious but stable" condition following surgery at Son Dureta Hospital in Palma where she was taken after falling 10 metres from a fifth-floor balcony at the Hotel Samoa in Calas de Mallorca on to a flat office roof at around 7.30am last Monday.

Her mother, Sara, who was sharing a room with her daughter, went missing immediately after the fall and is still missing.

The girl's father, Ian, and the couple's two eldest sons, were sleeping together in a separate room.

An air and sea search operation has been mounted and the island's ports and airports are under surveillance.

A police spokeswoman said yesterday that she was unwilling to speculate about why the girl's mother had disappeared.

English mother missing since daughter fell from hotel balcony
By: thinkSPAIN
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

National Police have mounted an air and sea search for the mother of a five year old English girl who fell from a room on the fifth floor of the Samoa Hotel in Porto Cristo, near Manacor yesterday.

The girl survived the fall, but is in a stable but critical condition in the intensive care unit at Son Dureta Hospital.

The search operation is focusing on the area around Calas de Mallorca.

A police spokesman explained that, at this stage of their inquiries, no theories have been put forward that satisfactorily explain the disappearance of the woman.