Woman Jailed For Life

Hannah Cobley

A Leicestershire woman who killed her newborn baby by forcing something down her throat and then leaving her to die, has been jailed for life.

Hannah Cobley, 29, left the child wrapped in plastic bags in an overgrown area at a farm in Stoney Stanton, where she lived with her parents.

She later searched the internet to find out how long a newborn could “survive without being fed”, her trial heard.

Leicester Crown Court heard post-mortem examinations revealed the baby had suffered three skull fractures and survived her injuries for two hours before dying.

Cobley, who was sentenced at Leicester Crown Court to serve a minimum of 18 years, had denied murdering the child in the early hours of April 26th 2017, although a jury took just two hours to reach a guilty verdict.