A mother who starved her three-year-old boy on an extreme vegan diet and later buried his body in the garden has admitted for the first time that her beliefs caused his death.
Abiyah Yasharahyalah died in early 2020 from a respiratory illness, worsened by a “restricted” vegan diet consisting primarily of nuts, raisins and soya milk, which caused severe malnourishment, rickets, anaemia and stunted growth.
