Couple ‘left dead son, 4, in bed for 8 days then buried him in garden after trying to heal fatal illness with garlic’

A COUPLE embalmed their "skeletal" lad aft trying to dainty his fatal unwellness with ail past buried him successful the garden, a tribunal heard.

Abiyah Yasharahyalah, four, was discovered astatine location successful Birmingham successful December 2022.

His parents Tai and Naiyahmi Yasharahyalah are accused of failing to neglecting their lad by failing to supply capable nutrient for the youngster.

The couple, who were described arsenic anemic and bladed owed to their strict vegan diet, allegedly near Abiyah "severely malnourished".

Mum Naiyahmi chiefly ate raisins and nuts and aft "cutting retired each processed food", the family's nutrient supplies "diminished", it was said.

Abiyah suffered with rickets, anaemia, stunted growth, bony malformation and deformity successful his abbreviated life, jurors heard.

Coventry Crown Court was told Abiyah fell sick with a acold oregon flu successful 2020, which his parents treated people with earthy ginger and garlic.

He was discovered lifeless the pursuing greeting but his mum and dada kept him successful their furniture for 8 days for a "ritual".

Jurors were told Tai Yasharahyalah hoped his lad would "come back" earlier embalming him with frankincense and myrrh.

Abiyah's assemblage was exhumed 2 years later, with police discovering his commencement and decease had not been registered.

The mates had been evicted from the rented spot but near their son's remains successful the backmost garden, the tribunal heard.

When they were yet recovered by constabulary successful a caravan successful Glastonbury, they said they had renounced their citizenship and were surviving arsenic "sovereign and indigenous members of the Kingdom of Yasharahyalah".

Officers observed they were some "extremely thin" with their bones disposable done their clothing.

Mum Naiyahmi successful peculiar struggled to locomotion and was described by constabulary arsenic "skeletal".

Prosecutor Jonas Hankin KC claimed the mates had "separately and unneurotic neglected" Abiyah by failing to supply him with capable nutrient and aesculapian care.

He added: "They deliberately chose not to supply oregon put for the proviso of capable nutrition and aesculapian care.

"Instead they prioritised their taste practices and beliefs implicit the child's welfare, with disastrous consequences.

"The defendants assertion that their behaviour passim was successful accordance with their taste beliefs, principally their strict veganism, and rejection of Western medicine."

The mates person denied causing oregon allowing their son's death, neglect, cruelty and perverting the people of justice.

The proceedings continues.