Thursday 30 June 2022 07:45 PM Parents accused of murdering 10-week-old daughter 'tried to blame the hospital ... trends now
A mother and father accused of murdering their ten-week-old daughter tried to blame the hospital for her death, a court heard today.
Lily-Mai Saint George died from a serious head injury and had also suffered 18 rib fractures, two fractures in her leg and severe bruising.
Lauren Saint George and Darren Hurrell, both 25, allegedly shook their daughter to death eight days after she was released into their care against the advice of hospital staff.
The parents both deny murder, manslaughter, causing or allowing the death of a child and cruelty to a person under 16 years old.
Hurrell's housing support worker told the court that he 'got the impression that they were blaming the hospital for what happened'.
Lauren Saint George (pictured) and Darren Hurrell (below), both 25, allegedly shook their daughter to death eight days after she was released into their care against the advice of hospital staff. Pictured: Lauren Saint George arriving at Wood Green Crown Court in London on June 14
'Darren had complained to me that Lauren was not motivated to go to the hospital to see the baby,' Darren Hurrell's housing support worker Anthony Monbelly told the court today. Pictured: Darren Hurrell arriving at Wood Green Crown Court on June 15
Lily-Mai was born prematurely in November 2017 and spent the first two months of her life in Barnet Hospital, before she was discharged into her parents' care on January 25 2018.
Saint George and Hurrell had been homeless for several years and hospital staff tried to stop them taking Lily-Mai home, believing they were incapable of looking after her, jurors heard.
They were horrified when Saint George had told staff that she 'hated' the noises Lily-Mai made and wished she would 'cry instead of groaning'.
The baby died at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital on 2 February 2018, after being found unresponsive by her parents at their home in Belmont Road, Haringey, two days earlier.
Lily-Mai was 10 weeks and two days old and only two weeks past a normal pregnancy term.
Anthony Monbelly was Hurrell's support worker when he lived in a housing association home.
Giving evidence today, Thursday, June 30, in a blue shirt and jeans, Mr Monbelly gave an account of a conversation he had with Hurrell in February 2018 about Lily-Mai's collapse.
'He said that he had been sleeping and Lauren had woken him and said that she didn't know how to do the baby.
'He said that he told her what to do and he got out of
