Wolverhampton mother: Why I threw my baby down rubbish chute

But Jaymin Abdulrahman insisted to a jury that she had been suffering depression since giving birth and had no intention of ever harming her.

She told a jury at Birmingham Crown Court this afternoon: "I don't know why but I was extremely sad and went back to the living room and I put her in a rubbish bag and I threw her away.

"After I did so, I just could not believe what I had just done and I could not understand why I did it. I was in shock."

When asked by defence barrister Miss Rachel Brand QC if it was just the baby that she had put in the bin bag, Abdulrahman responded: "Nothing else. I put her in the refuse sack on her own."

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The court heard the 25-year-old then went back into the flat, in Whitmore Reans, to throw away the child's moses basket, which she broke up with her bare hands before throwing that down the chute.

When asked if she had thought about what she was going to do beforehand, she replied: "No, never.

"I never planned for it beforehand. Even as I'm speaking to you, I speak in a state of disbelief of what I've done, even denying it to myself. I'd lost control of my thoughts."

After putting the baby, the moses basket and cushions down the rubbish chute, she went back into her flat. She said: "I wasn't well. I was in a state of disbelief."

She was then asked by Miss Brand QC if she had understood that the baby was bound to have been injured. She replied: "No. If I knew that by doing so I would do some harm to her I wouldn't have done it. I never thought about doing harm to her."

A forensic medical examiner for West Midlands Police told the hearing that he had found no evidence that Abdulrahman was suffering from mental health problems but Miss Brand disputed that claim by telling the jury Abdulrahman was suffering from a severe form of post-natal depression.

The defendant denies attempted murder, grievous bodily harm with intent and inflicting grievous bodily harm.