A Deal mother has joined calls for an alleyway path to be flattened after her daughter tripped and fell on to the uneven ground, splitting her bottom lip.

Martine Brett, 38, of Links Road, said her daughter Olivia is still suffering from the accident four months after it happened in the path that connects Queen Street to Park Street.

The eight-year-old was walking with her father Matthew and sister, five-year-old Georgia, on December 30 when it happened.

Mr Brett, 39, co-owner of Brett Cleaning Services with his wife, said their daughter tripped on a raised paving slab, in near enough the same spot as Millie Ellis, who featured on the front page of last week’s East Kent Mercury.

Millie’s mother Sarah said her daughter escaped with a bump to the forehead, and that the fall happened close to the wrought iron gates, closest to the Queen Street entrance.

Olivia, who goes to Sandown Primary School, came off worse.

The impact caused her teeth to rip through the bottom lip and she sustained grazes to her nose.

Mrs Brett, who is a beautician at U Beauty in Deal’s High Street, said she was shocked to see her daughter in the salon with blood all over her face.

She said: “My husband was walking the children into town.

“She had sensible shoes on and she was walking when she tripped up. My husband brought her to my work and there was blood everywhere.

“I took one look and sent them off to the minor injuries unit because the cuts were so deep.

'I took one look and sent them off to the minor injuries unit because the cuts were so deep.' - Mrs Brett

“She is still suffering from a small blister on the inside of her lip, four months on.”

For the next few days after the incident, Olivia was dosed up on Calpol and was confined to a soup diet.

Mrs Brett said: “She was awful. When Olivia first came in to me she was in floods of tears and she was in so much pain.”

She reiterated the point made by Mrs Ellis last week that action needs to be taken to resolve the issue.

She said: “I don’t know whether it is a tree branch pushing it up, but the path is a health hazard.

“If the owners are not going to do anything about it then that pathway needs to be closed.

“We used it all the time – not so much now because I don’t want anything happening again to any of my children.”

The Co-op, which has a shop in Park Street, confirmed it owns some of the path, but not all of it.

Investigations were being made as to whether the company owns the section of land where both youngsters fell.

A spokesman for the Co-op said it is continuing to investigate.