Three babies were suffocated, murder trial of mother told

THE deaths of a mother’s three babies were probably caused by an adult suffocating them or restricting their breathing, a leading paediatrician told a court yesterday.

Three babies were suffocated, murder trial of mother told

Professor Sir Roy Meadow said "asphyxiation caused by an adult" was the "most probable diagnosis" to explain the deaths of Trupti Patel's three babies between 1997 and 2001.

Patel, 35, who was living in Maidenhead, Berkshire, at the time her three babies died, denies murdering her two sons Amar and Jamie and daughter Mia.

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