A mother who allegedly pushed her dead toddler in a buggy for days told a court today how her partner had subjected the girl to beatings and cold showers and made her wear sunglasses to hide bruising on her face.
Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell and Scott Jeff were allegedly caught on CCTV visiting a pub and shops with the body of two-year-old Isabella Wheildon after she died in their care.
Both deny murdering the vulnerable little girl, although Gleason-Mitchell has admitted allowing the death of her daughter.
WHAT INVESTIGATION REVEALS
Pathologists have said the multiple fractures Isabella suffered to her pelvis before she died could only have been inflicted with ‘considerable force’ and were comparable to injuries from a car crash.
Giving evidence, Gleason-Mitchell, 24, described how she had seen her daughter bleeding from her genital area while lying on her Paw Patrol towel at a homeless unit in Ipswich, Suffolk.
STATEMENT FROM WITNESS
Asked if Jeff could have caused the terrible injuries, she said: ‘I witnessed him kicking her in that area constantly and punching her. It was more than once.’
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Three days before Isabella died on June 26 last year, the defendant said she had been ‘worried that something bad was going to happen to her because of how many times she was attacked or assaulted’.
The jury was shown CCTV of the trio travelling on a train from Great Yarmouth to Ipswich on June 19 after they had been offered the emergency accommodation.
