Mum 'accidentally flushed baby down toilet' before hiding body in car boot
A mother today told an inquest how she accidentally flushed her baby down a toilet before hiding his body in her car boot.
Claire Jones became pregnant after an affair with work colleague Marcus Bezerra, Cardiff Coroner's Court heard.
She hid her condition from friends and family, including partner of 11 years David Stoneman, by claiming a wheat allergy caused a hard mass to form in her stomach.
When she experienced pains in the early hours of December 28 last year, a week after her due date, she put it down to the diarrhoea she was suffering from.
Ms Jones said did not realise she had given birth to son Daniel until she flushed the toilet at her partner's parents' home in Penarth, South Wales, where she had been celebrating Christmas.
Ms Jones, of Pontnewydd, Cwmbran, South Wales, told the inquest: "While I was still on the toilet, I flushed it, and I felt something pull.
"I stood up slightly, and I could see a foot in the bowl of the toilet."
Cardiff Coroner Mary Hassell asked Ms Jones if she realised she had given birth, but she replied: "No".
She said the baby was underneath the water covered in toilet paper, and that the sensation of pulling was the placenta being delivered.
Sobbing, Ms Jones said: "I could see the baby's foot, so I pulled the baby out.
"I sat by the toilet. I put him on my lap. He wasn't crying. I was trying to feel for a pulse and there was nothing."
When asked why she did not call for help, Ms Jones said: "Because nobody knew I was pregnant. Because he wasn't breathing, I just panicked.
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