10 h. ago Joanne Sharkey who suffocated newborn baby Callum to death in 1998 before dumping his body in woodland avoids prison after judge says her case 'calls for compassion'

Joanne Sharkey, 55, had pleaded guilty in March at Liverpool Crown Court to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and endeavouring to conceal the birth of a child.

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11 h. ago Bombshell proved Joanne Sharkey killed her baby after being 'haunted' for 25 years

Joanne Sharkey, who was today handed a two-and-a-half-year suspended prison sentence, was found by police a quarter of a century after killing her newborn baby, thanks to breakthrough evidence

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11 h. ago Mum breaks down in tears as she is spared jail for killing her newborn baby

Joanne Sharkey has been handed a suspended prison sentence

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11 h. ago Mother of baby Callum who killed newborn in 1998 before dumping his body in woodland avoids prison after judge says her case 'calls for compassion'

Joanne Sharkey, 55, had pleaded guilty in March at Liverpool Crown Court to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and endeavouring to conceal the birth of a child.

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11 h. ago Joanne Sharkey won't go to jail for killing and dumping newborn baby 25 years ago

Baby Callum was found dead in Warrington in 1998 and his mother wasn't traced. But a DNA breakthrough in the cold case in 2022 finally led to Joanne Sharkey being identified

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12 h. ago Joanne Sharkey sentencing LIVE as mum who killed newborn baby learns fate

Joanne Sharkey buried the infant near Gulliver's World in Warrington

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12 h. ago WATCH Joanne Sharkey sentencing LIVE as mum who killed newborn baby spared jail

Joanne Sharkey buried the infant near Gulliver's World in Warrington

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4 d. ago Evil father who admitted raping his newborn baby to death threatens to kill his wife if he is not jailed

A sick South African father who admitted to murdering his one-week-old baby daughter after he violently raped her while her mother was out has threatened to kill her if he is not jailed.  

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5 d. ago Australia's notorious killer mum could walk free a millionaire after jail guard's terror

Despite being 15 years into an 18 year sentence for killing her newborn baby, Keli Lane might be leaving prison quite a bit richer than when she entered after her crime

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6 d. ago Scumbag dad rapes and kills newborn baby as wife went to buy daughter nappies

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT: The South African evil father gave a sickening reason for sexually assaulting his newborn daughter who died while her mother was buying nappies for her at the shops

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6 d. ago Vile father rapes newborn baby to death while wife out buying daughter nappies

Hugo Ferreira, 37, from South Africa, issued a sickening reason for sexually assaulting his newborn daughter. She was brutally murdered when her mum went to the shops

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1 week ago Mother's chilling words to husband after killing newborn baby when he was minutes old

Killer mother Joanne Sharkey, 55, from Liverpool, was not identified until recently when cold case detectives found a match for her older son in national DNA databases

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3 w. ago Pet sausage dog kills newborn baby in her cot while parents were asleep

The baby was found dead by her mother and covered in multiple bite marks, media reports say

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3 w. ago Newborn baby killed by 'aggressive' sausage dog after vets 'refused to euthanise it'

The dachsund clamped its jaws around the baby in her crib at the family home in the Russian city of Seversk in Siberia. The baby had been brought home from the hospital just a month earlier.

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4 w. ago Baby Callum's mother tearfully admits killing her newborn son, 27 years after his body was found in a bin bag and remained a mystery for decades

Joanne Sharkey today admitted killing her newborn son, known as Baby Callum, whose body was discovered in woodland near a theme park in Warrington almost 27 years ago.

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