Sickening truth of 3 yr old Mikaeel Kulars murder - LATEST Mikaeel Kular’s mother has pleaded guilty to killing her three-year-old son, who she subjected to repeated assaults. Rosdeep Adekoya had been accused of murder but admitted a reduced charge of culpable homicide at the High Court in Edinburgh. Social workers were last night accused of failing toddler Mikaeel Kular after his mother admitted she beat him to death as a punishment for being sick. Rosie Adekoya – who was known to social services – ‘lost her temper’ and battered the three-year-old boy in a rage when he was repeatedly sick after a trip to a restaurant. She then left him in agony to die of his 40 separate injuries over the course of three days. When she found him slumped dead on the floor, she wrapped his body in a duvet cover, hid it in a suitcase and buried it in the woods – before calling the police to say he was missing She also admitted repeatedly punching him and causing his body to hit against a hard object or inflicting blunt injuries on his head and body between January 12 and 15 Last night it emerged Adekoya, 34, had twice had her five children taken into care – but on both occasions, they were returned to her by social workers. This was despite neighbours and even her own mother warning the authorities on many occasions that the children were being seriously neglected, left to sleep on filthy mattresses and abandoned for whole weekends while she went out partying with drug dealers, drinking and taking cocaine. And when Adekoya – the daughter of a respectable Hertfordshire GP – moved from Fife to Edinburgh, social services failed to pass on the records about her. This meant that no one was monitoring the welfare of three-year-old Mikaeel and his siblings in the weeks before his death. Yesterday social workers and police were facing questions over why the party-mad single mother and her five children slipped so easily off the radar. Last night Fife Council said it was conducting a significant case review following Mikaeel’s death. At the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday, Adekoya wept as she pleaded guilty to killing her son at their home in Edinburgh in January and hiding his body in woodland. She was originally charged with murdering the toddler but the court accepted her plea of guilty to the lesser charge of culpable homicide. Adekoya dabbed her eyes repeatedly with tissues as the details of her crime were read to the court. Mikaeel’s father, Zahid Saeed, watched from the public gallery. The court heard that Mikaeel died on the night of Tuesday, January 14, from injuries inflicted three days earlier when Adekoya battered him for being unwell. His mother smacked him and struck him on the body and head with her fist, the court heard. When Mikaeel was sick for a third time, she dragged him to the shower by his arms and ‘beat him heavily’ on his back as he lay over the bath edge. Over the next few days Mikaeel’s condition worsened and he was kept off nursery. He was assaulted again on the Monday after being sick and became ‘listless’. Mikaeel’s disappearance from his Edinburgh home in January sparked a huge search involving police officers, firefighters, mountain rescue teams and the coastguard, as well as members of the public. His body was eventually found 25 miles away in woodland in Kirkcaldy, Fife. Adekoya had called 999 to report her son missing to police, telling officers he got out of bed and climbed on a stool to unlock the front door of his home. She also pleaded guilty to attempting to defeat the ends of justice by pretending to police he had gone missing. Adekoya’s internet history showed searches including “I find it hard to love my son”, “I love all of my children except one”, “Why am I so aggressive with my son” and “Get rid of bruises”. The court heard Mikaeel died on the night of Tuesday, January 14, from injuries inflicted the previous Sunday. His mother “lost her temper” when he was repeatedly sick following a trip to a Nando’s restaurant at the city’s Fountain Park. Mikaeel had more than 40 separate injuries to his body, including bruises to his back, chin and cheek, trauma to the brain, haemorrhage in the spinal cord and injuries to his arms. Mr Prentice said: “If medical assistance had been called for, death might not have resulted.” Sentence was deferred until August 25 at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 10:21:17 +0000
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