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Mother admits to smothering baby son with clingfilm

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A MOTHER has admitted killing her newborn son by smothering him – the second child to have died at her hands.

Ineta Dzinguviene, 38, pleaded guilty to one charge of culpable homicide of her baby, Paulius Dzingus.

Psychiatrists found her to be of diminished responsibility at the time of the child’s death due to her mental state. Dzinguviene was found guilty in 2011 of murdering the child and sentenced to at least 15 years in prison, but the conviction was overturned on appeal after the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission agreed a miscarriage of justice ‘may have taken place’.

Dzinguviene was previously convicted of killing her daughter, Paulina, whom she smothered with a plastic bag, in her native Lithuania in 2009.

After she was tried for the murder of baby Paulius in 2010, she was extradited to Lithuania to face trial for murdering Paulina, where she pleaded guilty in 2012.

She was returned to Scotland to serve her sentence for killing Paulius.

Dzinguviene was seven months pregnant with Paulius in February 2010 when she arrived in Scotland to join her husband, who had taken up work as a lorry driver. But the High Court in Edinburgh heard she attempted to conceal the pregnancy.

Her baby was born two months later, in April, and nobody outside of the hospital had seen the child alive.

She killed him that same month by smothering him with clingfilm.

The baby’s body was found inside a communal cupboard at the block of flats where Dzinguviene lived in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.

While serving her sentence at HMP Cornton Vale, she was found to have both post

‘Diminished responsibility’

traumatic stress disorder and complex post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from an abusive childhood.

Her marriage was also troubled and she was subjected to emotional, mental and sexual abuse by her husband.

The court was also told that Dzinguviene was raped by her mother’s boyfriend in 2003, resulting in a pregnancy.

In summing up, Lady Poole told Dzinguviene: ‘you killed your baby boy.

‘I accept you had diminished responsibility, but nevertheless, this is a very serious and tragic crime.’

Lady Poole deferred sentencing until June 20 for social work reports being obtained.

Dzinguviene was remanded in custody.

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