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Richard Vernalls

Teenager accused of murdering baby with cotton wool spoke of ‘hate’ for new-born cry, court hears

A teenage mother accused of murdering her baby son by assaulting him and then stuffing five cotton wool balls down his throat said “I hate the new-born cry”, jurors have heard.

Paris Mayo, who is now 19 but was 15 at the time of the incident, has gone on trial accused of killing Stanley Mayo before putting him in a bin bag at her parents’ home in Springfield Avenue, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, on March 23 2019.

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