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Murder-accused teen mum Paris Mayo 'suffocated baby son and dumped body in bin'

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Published date11 May 2023
Publication titleBirmingham Mail: Web Edition Articles (England)
Mayo, now 19, had been unaware she was pregnant when she gave birth unaided to a near or full-term baby in the living room, between 9.30pm and 10.30pm, on March 23, 2019. Prosecutors claim Mayo assaulted the baby, which caused a severe brain injury and fractures to his skull

The trial -which began at Worcester Crown Court today, Thursday, May 11 -was told she then stuffed pieces of cotton wool into his mouth, throat and neck when she realised the baby was still alive two hours later. She then put his body in a bin bag and left it on the front doorstep outside the house and went to bed.

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Opening the case, prosecutor Jonas Hankin KC told the jury: "The following morning, she texted her brother, who by then was in the house, this message: ‘When you go outside, can you put the black bag in the bin, it’s just full of sick from last night, please’.”

Jurors were told the baby’s death came to light when Mayo’s mum asked her son what was in the bag. In court it was described as “unusually heavy” and had left “streaks” of blood on the doorstep.

Mayo’s mum opened the bag and "suddenly went hysterical and was heard to say: ‘There’s a baby in the bag’ and… ‘Paris has given birth’,” the prosecutor said.

Mayo’s mum rang 999 and said her daughter had given birth. The prosecutor said the mum could be heard telling her: ‘You could have told me, darling, you could have told me – poor baby’. She also repeated ‘Why didn’t you tell me'”

Paramedics found the baby was wrapped in a sheet, but there were no signs of life. Mayo told another paramedic she “didn’t know she was pregnant" and said: ”‘I think the baby didn’t seem right’," the court heard.

The court heard Mayo told the paramedic she was hoping her mum would think the bag was rubbish and throw it out. The defendant and her mum travelled with the lifeless...

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