Teenager accused of illegal abortion told police she had stillbirth, court hears

Gloucester crown court heard that the defendants visited an abortion clinic but were told Harvey was ‘too far gone’. Photograph: Chris Poole/Alamy

A teenager accused of taking a pill to illegally abort a baby told police she had reconciled herself to the idea of having the child but suffered a stillbirth, a jury has heard.

Sophie Harvey, who was 19 at the time, said she panicked and wrapped the dead baby in a towel, put it in a plastic bag and placed it in a bin at the family home in Gloucestershire.