Rachel Tunstill, the mother who was serving a life sentence for the murder of her newborn baby, has died in prison. Tunstill had killed her daughter, Mia Kelly, by stabbing her with a pair of scissors in their Burnley, Lancashire home in 2017.
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The horrifying incident unfolded in the bathroom of her home, where she then disposed of the scissors in the kitchen bin. She wrapped her baby’s body in plastic bags before placing it in the same bin. Tunstill was found guilty of murder and sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in June 2017 after a trial at Preston Crown Court. However, it was later suggested that she should have been tried for infanticide, leading to a retrial.
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