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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lauren Gilmour

Woman who smothered newborn son sentenced

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A mother who killed her newborn son by smothering him with cling film has been sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in jail.

Ineta Dzinguviene, 38, was sentenced by Lady Poole at the High Court in Glasgow on Tuesday after she pleaded guilty to culpable homicide on the basis of diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing in Edinburgh.

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