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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Matthew Cooper

Couple show no emotion in court after starving and burying three-year-old son

Naiyahmi (left) and Tai Yasharahyalah arriving at Coventry Crown Court, where they are on trial accused of causing or allowing the death of their three-year-old son Abiyah Yasharahyalah, whose body was found buried in December 2022 in the garden of their former home in Handsworth, Birmingham. Picture date: Thursday November 28, 2024. - (PA Wire)

A couple who caused the death of their three-year-old son by following an “extreme” vegan diet and then buried his body in their garden have both been handed lengthy jail terms.

Tai and Naiyahmi Yasharahyalah, aged 42 and 43, showed no obvious emotion in the dock as a judge said they had both “played a part in starving” Abiyah Yasharahyalah when it would have been obvious he needed medical care.

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