Mother who killed newborn ‘Baby Callum’ 27 years ago spared jail

Joanne Sharkey had previously admitted to manslaughter after incident when she was suffering postnatal depression

A woman who killed her newborn baby 27 years ago while suffering from postnatal depression has been spared jail because her thinking was substantially impaired" by mental illness.

Joanne Sharkey, 55, was handed a two-year prison sentence, suspended for two years, after admitting manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility over the death of her days-old son, whose body was found wrapped in bin bags in woodland in 1998.