Mother 'threw baby down Wolverhampton rubbish chute'

Jurors were told that the baby girl could have reached speeds of up to 29mph during the fall.

Jaymin Abdulrahman, aged 25, denies the attempted murder of her baby. The Birmingham Crown Court jury heard that Abdulrahman's husband found their daughter who had been dropped down a chute from the fifth floor of flats in Whitmore Reans.

Prosecutors believe the baby was dropped in a Moses basket and hit a metal plate at the end of the chute.

Abdulrahman then told her husband their little girl had been kidnapped, the court was told. Jurors were shown a reconstruction of how a dummy of the same size and weight of the baby would have travelled down the chute.

Mr Andrew Smith QC, prosecuting, said: "Experiments show a dummy of the same size and proportion of the child would have reached maximum speeds of 29mph.

"The drop from the fifth floor would have taken 2.2 seconds before the child would have hit a metal plate designed to deflect rubbish into a bin."

He added: "It is the prosecution's argument that Jaymin Abdulrahman placed her daughter down the chute through a deliberate act and choice of hers. It was her intention to kill her daughter."

He added: "It is clear, I am sure, that a six-day-old baby could not have placed itself in the position in the rubbish chute. She was placed there by Jaymin Abdulrahman."

Abulrahman's husband, who worked in a takeaway restaurant, had been told by his wife that two people had kidnapped their daughter on the day of the incident in September, jurors were today told

He called police to a report a child snatching, and it was him who discovered the baby in the bins at the bottom of the block of flats. She was wrapped in a pink blanket, Mr Smith said. She suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain.

Kurdish national Abdulrahman, whose address cannot be given for legal reasons, also denies causing grievous bodily harm with intent, and inflicting grievous bodily harm.

The trial continues.