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Fred Lancelot/PA

British mother arrested in France over baby's death

The woman, her husband and their two young children were on holidays in the southwest of France.

A BRITISH MOTHER was arrested yesterday after her five-month-old baby was found dead during a family holiday in southwest France, a judicial official said.

According to preliminary information, the woman in her thirties and her husband were staying with their two children – the baby and a-three-year old – at a holiday home in Saint-Pee-sur-Nivelle, in the Bayonne area.

Yesterday was the last day of their week-long holiday and the father woke up early and left the bedroom which all four were apparently sharing, according to the official from the Bayonne prosecutor’s office.

The mother got up later, around 9am local time and it was then that the father discovered that the baby was dead and alerted the emergency services.

“The suspect death of a baby was discovered at the scene” and police enquiries quickly focussed on the mother, who was arrested, deputy prosecutor Marc Mariee told AFP.

A post-mortem will be carried out next week.

- © AFP 2016.

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    Feb 15th 2018, 9:24 AM

    That’s a sentence

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    Feb 15th 2018, 11:21 AM

    @David Harries: life without possibility of parole would be better but 40 years is a start! Irish system could learn! Start with doubling most sentences given seems about right

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    Feb 15th 2018, 11:46 AM

    @kevinhunt101: The problem with the Irish System is that there is an over emphasis on custodial sentences for non-violent/serious crimes. If more people were given suspend sentences which involved monitoring and work for the state then it would (I) potentially self-fund itself (ii) reduce the overcrowding problem with our prisons.

    This would then free up the necessary space for the people who are an actual danger to society to be imprisoned for longer.

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    Feb 15th 2018, 12:09 PM

    @Thn: agree, large fines and compulsory payments (taken from income source) for non violent crimes need to be implemented! Free up prison space for non violent crimes! Also more solitary confinement for violent and repeat offenders. Planned murder should be min 40 years no possibility of parole, no good behavior taken into account, no good family person etc etc! Multiple murders should be death penalty, reduce costs to state. Are they really sorry, no if they committed 2 or more murders.

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    Feb 15th 2018, 9:51 AM

    He had molested the girl who survived when she was 13 but her family chose to believe him

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    Feb 15th 2018, 9:26 AM

    Some down right sick puppies out there. Well done for sentence handed down.

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    Feb 15th 2018, 10:25 AM

    Should be out to death. Simple.

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    Feb 15th 2018, 10:05 AM

    What a beautiful young woman. What an utterly sick, monster. A life sentence seems generous

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    Feb 15th 2018, 3:07 PM

    @Dave O Keeffe: yeah Dave sexist pig monster

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    Feb 15th 2018, 3:09 PM

    @Sandra O’Fucáif: on a different note Sandra are u still claiming that there are thousands of Egyptian Copts living here like illegally

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    Feb 15th 2018, 10:51 PM

    @johnp: I think that Sandra need a new avatar.

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    Feb 15th 2018, 10:58 PM

    @Sandra O’Fucáif: oh move along

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    Feb 15th 2018, 11:36 AM

    The Chinese have the right idea. Why keep this bit of trash alive when one in the back of the head would release millions of Pounds to improve the Health Service !

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    Feb 15th 2018, 9:39 AM

    Really really evil, this guy should just be shot.

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    Feb 15th 2018, 12:30 PM

    What a beaitiful woman and waste of a lfe.. sentencing is just and we need to review our sentences here which is a joke tbh.

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    Feb 15th 2018, 1:42 PM

    That fella was no addition to any country !

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    Feb 15th 2018, 3:02 PM

    40 years is a joke. Should be tortured for 40 years

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    Feb 15th 2018, 10:33 AM

    Just kill the sick f##ker

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    Feb 15th 2018, 11:12 AM

    @john: and do it nice and slowly.

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    Feb 16th 2018, 8:42 PM

    Ain’t Multiculturalism great.

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