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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

Coventry student who hid baby in cereal box convicted of murder

Jia Xin Teo in a West Midlands police headshot
Jia Xin Teo moved to the UK from Malaysia earlier this year in order to study. Photograph: West Midlands Police

A Coventry University student who concealed her newborn baby in a cereal box hidden inside a suitcase after giving birth on her bathroom floor has been convicted of murder.

Jia Xin Teo, a 22-year-old student from Malaysia who arrived in the UK earlier this year to study, was found guilty of murdering the baby she gave birth to in March. The trial at Warwick crown court heard how Teo concealed her pregnancy and gave birth to a full-term baby on 4 March in the en suite bathroom of her bedroom in student halls of residence.

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