Brother’s horror at finding baby his teen sister ‘murdered’ in ‘unusually heavy’ bin bag
A BROTHER has described his horror to jurors at finding a dead baby allegedly murdered by his teen sister in an “unusually heavy” bin bag.
Paris Mayo, then aged 15, is accused of killing baby Stanley when she “unexpectedly” went into labour at her family home in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
Jurors heard she later messaged her brother George, saying: “When you go outside, can you put the black bag in the bin, it’s just full of sick from last night, please.”
George, then aged 16, told Worcester Crown Court today of the moment he discovered the dead baby after he went to move the “unusually heavy” bin liner from the doorstep.
He said he noticed “streaks of blood” under the bag when he lifted it before his mum opened it to find the tragic newborn.
When asked what her reaction was, George clicked his fingers and said: “She just went hysterical.”
He told jurors on the day of the birth, his sister was “complaining of pain” but he believed it was a “lady thing” so kept away.
George then went to run an errand while Mayo took her second bath of the day at around 9pm.
When he returned an hour-and-a-half later, Mayo told him she “had bled heavily” and warned him away from the living room while she cleaned the mess up herself.
The brother said he then noticed the blood, which he described as “blotches the size of a 50p piece”.
After taking his sister a cup of tea, he went to his room at around midnight and attempted to sleep.
But George told the court: “I didn’t sleep very well. I had a feeling something wasn’t right.”
In a ten-minute 999 call played to jurors today, Mayo’s mum could be heard sobbing uncontrollably and retching repeatedly.
She told operators: “My 16-year-old daughter just gave birth last night. I didn’t know.
“I don’t know what to do.”
Asked if the baby was breathing, Mayo’s mother said “yes” but corrected herself and said: “No. No.”
She then replied: “Yes. Yes,” and broke down into tears when asked if Stanley was dead.
“It’s a boy,” she added.
As the operator briefly waited for a paramedic to join the 999 call, Mayo’s mother could be heard asking her daughter: “Why didn’t you tell me? Why didn’t you tell me? Why didn’t you tell me?
“You could have told me. You could have told me, Paris.”
She then told the paramedic: “My daughter has given birth last night and she didn’t tell me. And he wasn’t breathing when she gave birth.
“She thought he had died so she hid it.”
Asked what colour Stanley was, Mayo’s mum replied: “No. He’s just cold. He’s cold. He’s cold.”
She added: “I’ve wrapped him up.”
The mum wept uncontrollably again as she described baby Stanley as stiff.
Jurors heard the teen said she didn’t know she was pregnant and the baby had “all of a sudden just popped out”.
Her mum was upstairs at the time tending to her sick dad, who passed away ten days after the birth.
She had hoped her mum would think the newborn was “rubbish” and “throw it out”, it was said.
Mayo was later heard asking “Is it my fault? Did I do this?”, and later “It’s my fault, it’s my fault” as the family travelled to hospital.
The court was told baby Stanley was born full-term or nearly full-term on the night of March 23, 2019.
A post mortem found he suffocated after a piece of cotton wool blocked his oesophagus.
The material had been forced so deeply down his neck that it was only discovered at autopsy.
Medics also found Stanley “may have suffered a significant crush injury to his head from opposite sides, for example, beneath her foot”, the court was told.
He had two large, complex fractures to either side of the skull, as a result of inflicted and “non-accidental” injury, caused by “blunt-force trauma”, doctors concluded.
The court was told a consultant neonatologist found that with “timely medical intervention…he would have been expected to survive”.
Mayo, of Ruardean, Gloucestershire, denies murder.
The trial continues.