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THE MOTHER OF a three-year-old Scottish boy whose disappearance sparked a massive search has been jailed for eleven years after she admitted killing him and hiding his body in a suitcase, the BBC reports.
Mikaeel Kular died two days after being beaten by 34-year-old Rosdeep Adekoya at the family’s Edinburgh flat in January of this year.
Adekoya then placed his body in a suitcase and dumped it near her sister’s house in Kirkcaldy, Fife, some 32km away.
Originally charged with the toddler’s murder, she later admitted a reduced charge of ‘culpable homicide’.
Police mugshot of Rosdeep Adekoya.
Mikaeel, who was of South Asian origin, was reported missing from his bed at his home in north Edinburgh on Thursday 15 January. His mother raised the alarm.
His disappearance led to a major search involving hundreds of members of the local community and coastguards who scoured the shoreline near his home.
Volunteers help in the search for Mikaeel.
Tributes left near Mikaeel’s home.
But in the early hours of the following Saturday, police revealed that the body of a young boy had been discovered in Kirkcaldy.
Adekoya , a beauty therapist, was formally arrested and charged in connection with her son’s death later that day.
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Not to be a spoil sport but- I was always told it’s illegal to collect frogspawn?
@Kevin Hill: me also
@Colin Keogh: for educational purposes its aloud as far as I know
@Kevin Hill: It is here but schools are allowed for educational purposes. This was in NI.
@Kevin Hill: they were on ground that was drying so were going to die. Did the same myself in early march and have a few thousand tadpoles in a pond which I’ll be releasing as soon as they are frogs. Could have been famous too!
@Kevin Hill: ah whisht you
She’s delightful ! At least she didn’t waste her COVID months in and out of the off license unlike some …ahem
Illegal… Jesus every child the far side of the red cow collected tadpoles as a kid, and caught bees in a jam jar.
Jesus I’ve been doing this for years, because frogs return to the same spot every year to spawn so they generally spawn in drainage ditches near us which end up drying up. So we collect them, rear them and release them in a nature reserve near us also. Never thought to put it on the internet. Guess I missed my five minutes of fame.
The world we live in now everything is a sensation.
That’s more than a jar of frogspawn, I hope they will be released eventually
@Colin Keogh: you could have just finished reading the article
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