A mentally ill mum drowned her four-year-old son in the bath and told police he said: "Mummy don't kill me" before she held him under the water. Paramedics declared Kingswealth Bayode dead at the scene.
Oluwakemi Badare, 37, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, had denied murder but was deemed unfit to plead as she was unable to understand the charges. Following a trial of issue at the Old Bailey, she was found responsible for his murder by the jury, reports MyLondon.
During the trial, prosecutor Duncan Atkinson QC said: "On December 27, 2020, the London Ambulance Service were called by this defendant to her address in Plumstead. She told the emergency operator that she had killed her son, and explained that she had drowned him. She also said that she had left him in the bath and forgotten about him.
