A mother who admitted killing her baby 27 years ago said her arrest in 2023 was a “relief”, telling detectives: “It’s not easy to live with all that time. I thought this would happen, you don’t get away with anything forever”.
Joanne Sharkey, 55, was employed as a benefits officer for West Lancashire Council in 1998, when she killed her newborn son, and dumped his body in woodland in Warrington.
