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| Mikaeel Kular: Mother Rosdeep Adekoya admits 'culpable homicide' of toddler | |
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| The mother of three-year-old Mikaeel Kular has pleaded guilty to killing her son. | The mother of three-year-old Mikaeel Kular has pleaded guilty to killing her son. |
| Rosdeep Adekoya, 34, was charged with murdering the toddler but admitted a reduced charge of culpable homicide at the High Court in Edinburgh today. | Rosdeep Adekoya, 34, was charged with murdering the toddler but admitted a reduced charge of culpable homicide at the High Court in Edinburgh today. |
| A major search was launched after the boy was reported missing from his Edinburgh home in January. | A major search was launched after the boy was reported missing from his Edinburgh home in January. |
| His body was later found around 25 miles away in woodland at Kirkcaldy, Fife. | His body was later found around 25 miles away in woodland at Kirkcaldy, Fife. |
| Adekoya, a prisoner at Cornton Vale jail near Stirling, admitted assaulting and killing Mikaeel at the family's flat in Ferry Gait Crescent and hiding his body in woodland in Fife. | Adekoya, a prisoner at Cornton Vale jail near Stirling, admitted assaulting and killing Mikaeel at the family's flat in Ferry Gait Crescent and hiding his body in woodland in Fife. |
| She pleaded guilty to attempting to defeat the ends of justice by pretending to police he had gone missing, sparking a search by the emergency services and members of the public. | |
| A major police investigation was launched after Mikaeel was reported missing from his Ferry Gait Crescent home in the Scottish capital Adekoya admitted repeatedly punching her son and causing his body to hit against a hard object or inflicting blunt injuries on his head and body between January 12 and 15. | A major police investigation was launched after Mikaeel was reported missing from his Ferry Gait Crescent home in the Scottish capital Adekoya admitted repeatedly punching her son and causing his body to hit against a hard object or inflicting blunt injuries on his head and body between January 12 and 15. |
| She admitted wrapping Mikaeel's body in a duvet cover, putting it in a suitcase and driving to Dunvegan Avenue in Kirkcaldy, Fife, where she hid the case under a bush in woods behind a house. | She admitted wrapping Mikaeel's body in a duvet cover, putting it in a suitcase and driving to Dunvegan Avenue in Kirkcaldy, Fife, where she hid the case under a bush in woods behind a house. |
| She had called 999 to report her son missing to police, telling officers he got out of bed and climbed on a stool to unlock the front door of his home. | She had called 999 to report her son missing to police, telling officers he got out of bed and climbed on a stool to unlock the front door of his home. |
| She admitted causing a major search for her son, involving police, the fire service, coastguard, mountain rescue crews and members of the public. | |
| Advocate depute Alex Prentice told the court: "The basis for the plea tendered being accepted is that the Crown accepts that the accused had no intention to kill Mikaeel and that the assault perpetrated upon him, although severe, fell short of the wicked recklessness required for murder." | Advocate depute Alex Prentice told the court: "The basis for the plea tendered being accepted is that the Crown accepts that the accused had no intention to kill Mikaeel and that the assault perpetrated upon him, although severe, fell short of the wicked recklessness required for murder." |
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