Health professionals found it difficult to identify risks with a mentally ill mother who later jumped off a cliff with her newborn daughter as she was "articulate" and "middle class", a review has found.

The mother of a four-year-old boy whose body was left in a cot for two years after she let him starve to death will be sentenced today.

A 43-year-old mother of eight has been found guilty of killing her four- year-old son by starving him to death.