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Army wife mum-of-five who murdered newborn son and dumped his body in wood is jailed for life

 Army wife mum-of-five who murdered newborn son and dumped his body in wood is jailed for life

 THE wife of a British soldier has been jailed for life after she was convicted of murdering her newborn baby and leaving his body in the woods.

Silipa Keresi, who has four other children, had requested a termination months before tiny Maliki arrived - but was told it was too late.

A mum has been jailed for life for the murder of her baby son
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A mum has been jailed for life for the murder of her baby sonCredit: Solent
Silipa Keresi was captured on CCTV carrying the little one's body to woodland in Hampshire
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Silipa Keresi was captured on CCTV carrying the little one's body to woodland in HampshireCredit: Solent

She was captured on camera in the early hours of the morning carrying the tot's lifeless body from the Hampshire hotel where she and her family were living.

A dog walker found the little one wrapped carefully in a towel with his umbilical cord still attached 30 hours later.

Keresi, 38, denied charges of murder and infanticide. However, this week she was convicted following a trial at Winchester Crown Court.

Keresi wept as she was today sentenced to a minimum of nine years in prison at Winchester Crown Court, Hants.

Mr Justice Neil Garnham told the mother of four her newborn was "exposed, defenceless and abandoned" when she left him to die but he did not consider her a danger to other children.

He said: "Yours was not a happy marriage. You had been subject to acts of violence by your husband.

"Your husband's assaults on you forced him to leave the army, and your status in this country then became precarious.

"You denied your pregnancy to others and I accept that for a significant time you denied it to yourself and pretended it was not happening.

"You left the hotel carrying a single towel and walked into the countryside. A short time later you gave birth to Maliki by the side of the road.

"You pulled the cord from your own body. You then wrapped him in a white towel and took himinto the woods where you deposited your son by the foot of a tree.

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