A teenager who killed her newborn son after giving birth alone has been jailed for a minimum of 12 years. Paris Mayo, 19, was found guilty of murdering Stanley Mayo, who was just hours old, at Worcester Crown Court on Friday and was jailed at the same court on Monday.
A trial had heard Mayo was 15 when she gave birth to Stanley unaided in a living room at her parents' home in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, on March 23, 2019. She assaulted Stanley, leaving him with a fractured skull, stuffed five cotton wool balls into his mouth and pinched his nose before putting his body in a bin bag, leaving it on the front doorstep and going to bed.
The teenager had denied knowing she was pregnant and killing her son, saying he was already dead when she gave birth to him. Mayo, of Ruardean in Gloucestershire, cried in the dock on Friday as jurors returned a majority guilty verdict after eight hours and 38 minutes of deliberation.
