Mummified boy in cot was starved to death

The mummified corpse of a four-year-old boy was found in a cot in his mother’s bedroom almost two years after he starved to death, a jury has been told.

Hamzah Khan’s body was still dressed in a baby-gro when police made the “dreadful discovery” at his house in Bradford, West Yorkshire, a court heard.

Details of how Hamzah’s body was found in Sept 2011 were outlined when his mother Amanda Hutton went on trial at Bradford Crown Court yesterday.