Evil mum who killed newborn baby girl by hiding her in cereal box is handed life sentence

A MUM who killed her newborn baby girl by hiding her in a cereal box has been given a life sentence.

Jia Xin Teo will have to serve a minimum prison term of 17 years after being found guilty of murdering her newborn.

Jia Xin Teo has been given a life sentence for the murder of her baby girlThe Crown Prosecution Service

The 22-year-old gave birth to an alive, full-term baby on March 4 before she placed her daughter in a cereal box.

Teo wrapped the box in a plastic bag and placed the tragic newborn in a suitcase for two days until the alarm was finally raised.

By this point, the baby girl had already died.

The evil mum had concealed her pregnancy when she arrived in the UK from Malaysia to study at Coventry University.

She went eventually went to the hospital on March 6 – knowing by that point the baby “would certainly be dead”.

Police were called to her home after medics noticed signs that Teo had given birth despite her denials.

She was found guilty of murder at Warwickshire Crown Court on October 24.

The student claimed she had been hearing voices that told her to kill or harm the baby.

But a judge told the court she “did not accept” Teo’s version of events at trial.

In her sentencing remarks at Warwick Crown Court the judge said: “You knew that, by sealing that plastic bag, your baby would certainly die and you thought that, by hiding her body in a cereal packet in your luggage, no one would ever find her body.

“I am sure that your baby was alive for over four hours before you killed her.”

She added: “I am sure you decided to give birth all on your own as you were determined that no one should know you were pregnant, and no one should know you had had a baby.

“This was because you had decided that you were going to get rid of your baby as soon as she was born, and then no one would ever know you had had a baby.”

Teo was handed a life sentence and must serve a minimum of 17 years in prison.