19 year old Paris Mayo has received a life sentence with a minimum time spent of 12 years, after the brutal murder of her newborn son when she had been just 15 years old. Paris whose six week trial held at Worcester Crown Court on Monday 26 June had committed the heinous crime by inflicting complex skull fractures on the newborn and stuffing cottonwool down his throat after giving birth in the living room of her parents' home in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, in March 2019.
In the course of the trial, The Crown Prosecution Service said the baby's short life "was filled withhs pain and suffering when he should have been nurtured and loved" by his own mother. Giving evidence before the court, Paris claimed she did not know at the time that she had been pregnant as she had thought she had a stomach bug that wouldn't go away. According to the teenager, it never occurred to her to take a pregnancy test and it had only become a reality when she felt "sharp stomach pangs'' in the living room of her parents' home. The pangs turned out to be the onset of labour and subsequent delivery of the infant she promptly murdered. The prosecution give abundant evidence that Paris Mayo had been a "wild and rebellious teenager" while Paris testified that she had behaved that way because she wanted to be liked by the "cool kids".
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