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British tourist strangles secret baby

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A student from London has been charged with choking her third child to death seconds after giving birth to him. Leah Andrews, 20, (pictured above) was on holiday in Crete with two friends from whom she had kept her pregnancy secret. After a night out in Malia, the pair found Ms Andrews in her hotel room with the baby's body. Malia's police chief said her friends found "blood everywhere, and the woman cleaning the floor and tables with a towel with the baby's body in it".

A hotel receptionist described scenes of "utter panic", telling reporters that Andrews' sister "rushed down screaming. She was in a state of shock. She had no idea her sister was even pregnant."

Officers searched the room and found the dead baby with sheets wrapped around his neck and covering his face. Andrews told the police the baby had been stillborn, but coroners refuted the claim, saying, "the baby was alive. There was air in his lungs and his stomach. The child met a violent death."

Andrews was taken to a medical centre yesterday morning after her sister phoned the police, and is now being treated for "a great loss of blood". She was put under police guard at the hospital in nearby Iraklio. The maximum sentence for child murder in Greece is 20 years.

The question remains, should Andrews be imprisoned for this crime, or treated for what is clearly a mental illness?
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14 responses // British tourist strangles secret baby

  • I don't know why but this fills me with sadness rather than just horror. What kind of mindset must you be in?
    rebbill
  • She's already got 2 babies then she chokes one to death? I don't know what to say.
    shroomfairy
  • So sad :( She needs therapy. And maybe access to birth control...
    Elligirl
  • Maybe she should have not had sex or at least took the proper precautions.

    She choked him to death. That's not insanity that's on purpose and with the intent to kill. She already thought of doing this prior or she would have just got an abortion. Oh wait this is like an abortion.
    J_Jammer
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  • Wow, that's disturbing and sad. I see the Daily Mail took great pride in revealing 'the first exclusive picture' of this woman later today. I guess no-one will know exactly what's going on until she's had a psych assessment, but British defendants haven't historically done well in Greece...
    LindseyIndigo
  • Clearly she is mentally ill and so is everyone else that kills their young children........it's still murder. I'm sure she can use the insanity or I had a bad childhood excuse, but.......it's still murder.
    delilah1234
  • I DONT THINK SHE KILLED HER BABY I THINK THAT IF SHE WANTED TO KILL THE BABY SHE WOULD HAVE HAD IT SOME WERE SO SHE COULD HIDE THE BABY SO SHE COULD CARING ON WITH HER HOILDAY LEAH ANDREWS IS A YOUNG MUM WE NEED TO HELP HER NOW BEFORE ITS TO LATE
    luedella
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  • Officers searched the room and found the dead baby with sheets wrapped around his neck and covering his face.

    The article clearly states that this child was murdered. Yes, this woman needs all the help she can get, but the fact remains that she murdered her child.
    delilah1234

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