{"id":39475,"date":"2022-05-26T12:48:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T12:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=39475"},"modified":"2022-05-26T12:55:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T12:55:14","slug":"woman-jailed-for-murdering-baby-she-wanted-to-adopt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=39475","title":{"rendered":"Woman jailed for murdering baby she wanted to adopt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A woman who murdered a baby boy she wanted to adopt has been jailed for at least 18 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura Castle&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-cumbria-61477675\">shook 13-month-old Leiland-James Corkill<\/a>&nbsp;at her home in Barrow, Cumbria, in January 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had admitted manslaughter but at Preston Crown Court was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-cumbria-61479420\">found guilty of murder<\/a>&nbsp;and child cruelty. Her husband Scott Castle was cleared of causing or allowing the boy\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Castle, 38, was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 18 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dressed all in black, she wept loudly throughout the hearing especially when statements were read from Leiland-James\u2019 birth mother Laura Corkill, who called her son\u2019s killer a \u201cmonster\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Justice Jeremy Baker said Castle had a \u201cselfish desire\u201d to keep Leiland-James even though she was struggling to bond with the baby and it was a \u201ctragedy\u201d the Castles did not end the adoption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/760D\/production\/_124412203_1_leiland-corkhill.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Leiland-James Corkill was placed with Laura and Scott Castle five months before his death<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Leiland-James moved in with the Castles in August 2020 when he was eight months old, having been taken into care by Cumbria County Council at birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court heard the couple struggled to bond with him and Castle sent her husband messages while he was at work criticising Leiland-James, calling him vulgar names and a \u201cmoaning whinge bag\u201d and describing how she \u201cabsolutely leathered\u201d him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At about 08:15 GMT on 6 January 2021, Castle called 999 to say Leiland-James was unconscious and breathing awkwardly after falling from the sofa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He died the following day at Alder Hey Children\u2019s Hospital in Liverpool where doctors were highly suspicious of her account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/12A52\/production\/_124907367_3040cc64-75ca-4c8e-939b-00da0e2352f0.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>After initially telling police Leiland-James fell from the sofa, Laura Castle answered no comment in subsequent interviews<br>Image Source: CUMBRIA POLICE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the opening day of her trial she admitted manslaughter but said she did not mean to kill him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She told the court she \u201clost her mind\u201d as the boy was crying and she shook him to try and silence him, accidentally hitting his head against the arm of the sofa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neighbours said they heard a thud but no baby crying, with prosecutors claiming Castle \u201clost her temper\u201d when Leiland-James spat out Weetabix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pathologists said \u201csevere\u201d force would have been needed to cause the fatal brain injuries and believed his head had been struck against a hard surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said a fall from the sofa would not account for the extensive internal bleeding and likened his injuries to those suffered in a high-speed car crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SEND A STORY:<\/strong>\u00a0Do you have a story for us or need a promotion\/advertisement? 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