Rachel Tunstill was twice jailed for life for the murder of her daughter Mia Kelly and died in HMP Styal on Tuesday, August 1
A mother who stabbed her newborn baby to death with scissors and then placed her body in plastic bags before dumping it in a kitchen bin has died in prison.
She was sentenced to life imprisonment and told to serve a minimum of 17 years before she could be considered for release. The Prison Service confirmed last night that Tunstill, who was housed at HMP Styal, had died. But the court heard the baby was almost full-term and she was 37 to 38 weeks pregnant. The jury was told Tunstill had been charged with murder but jurors were able to consider alternatives of manslaughter, manslaughter with diminished responsibility or infanticide.
At the time of sentencing the judge, Mr Justice King, said: "This must have been a sustained and frenzied attack on a victim who because of her age was particularly vulnerable. Her duty to her newborn baby was to cradle and comfort her - not to stab her to death.
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