Monday 23 May 2022 08:31 PM Harrowing footage shows killer foster mother 'shushing' baby she was hoping to ... trends now
A foster mother who battered to death a baby boy recorded herself pulling faces while a child lay crying in a hospital bed, it emerged today.
New footage shows convicted killer Laura Castle, 38, making the strange facial expressions in hospital.
Castle was found guilty of murdering 13-month-old Leiland-James Corkill last week after a court heard she had 'leathered' the child, who suffered fatal head injuries.
In other videos, Leiland-James is heard to sob uncontrollably while Castle attempts to 'shush' him. In further footage, she wipes away his tears as he sits in a baby bouncer.
The toddler had been placed in the care of Castle and her husband, Scott, 35, in August 2020.
But five months later, on January 6, 2021, paramedics found the tot unresponsive and floppy when they attended the couple's home in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
Laura Castle, 38, of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, was found guilty of murdering 13-month-old Leiland-James Corkill last week at Preston Crown Court. Footage shows her pulling faces as the infant cried in hospital
Leiland-James died the following day after doctors found that his heart wasn't beating and he had a head injury, which Laura Castle said he sustained by falling from a sofa.
But the court heard how she had then searched online for what might cause a bleed on the brain while the tot lay in hospital, as her story began to unravel.
And later a post-mortem finding confirmed that he had suffered a traumatic head injury, which wasn't caused by accident.
During her trial at Preston Crown Court, the foster mum pleaded guilty to manslaughter, after admitting that she shook the baby so that he was 'stop crying.'
But texts shared between Laura Castle and her husband revealed that she had referred to Leiland-James as a 'proper n*bhead', a 'd**k' and a s**t bag'.
