Mum & lover who wheeled tot’s body around in pram for THREE days after she was kicked to death are convicted over horror

A MUM and her person who wheeled a toddler's assemblage astir for 3 days aft she was kicked to decease person been convicted implicit the horror.

Isabella Rose Wheildon suffered a "regime of escalating brutality" astatine the hands of evil Scott Jeff.

The two-year-old's mum Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell simply "stood back, watched and did nothing" arsenic her person carried retired the "callous, cruel and yet fatal" attacks.

Little Isabella is believed to person died connected June 26 past twelvemonth successful a impermanent lodging portion successful Ipswich.

But twisted Jeff and Gleason-Mitchell, some 24, kept the girl's decease a secret.

Ipswich Crown Court was told they carried connected pushing her assemblage astir successful a pushchair with the hood pulled up to shield her face.

The mates besides took her corpse connected a buying travel to bargain computer gaming equipment.

She was yet discovered connected June 30 nether blankets successful a ablution astatine the lodging unit.

Jeff was contiguous recovered blameworthy of execution and 2 counts of cruelty to a kid pursuing a trial.

Gleason-Mitchell, who had admitted causing oregon allowing Isabella's death, wept arsenic she was cleared of execution but convicted of kid cruelty.

The tribunal was told constabulary officers had been greeted by a "very beardown smell" erstwhile the bath was unlocked astatine the couple's home.

One pulled backmost the blankets to spot the "face of a young kid who was not moving".

Prosecutor Sally Howes KC said: "He was alert of terrible bruising connected her face. She was acold to the touch.”

The find was made erstwhile a pistillate reported to police on June 30 that she had received a Facebook message from a "friend of hers".

Ms Howes said: "That connection disclosed that her friend's girl had died successful her sleep three days earlier and was successful her pushchair successful the bathroom.

"That person was the archetypal defendant, Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell, and her girl was Isabella."

A station mortem recovered she had "extensive outer traumatic injuries to the brushed tissues of the assemblage including head, neck, torso, limbs" and different areas.

She had besides suffered fractures to some wrists and a "complex pelvic fracture involving respective bones".

Her origin of decease was fixed arsenic "bone marrow embolism caused by skeletal trauma".

The tribunal heard this "severe" harm to her pelvis was apt caused by "either kicking oregon stamping oregon both".

Ms Howes said: "It's the prosecution lawsuit that Isabella Wheildon was a healthy, contented, well-cared for small miss until Scott Jeff came into her young life.

"Towards the extremity of May 2023, helium entered a narration with Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell.

"From that clip up to her death, Isabella was subjected to a authorities of escalating brutality which was callous, cruel and yet fatal."

Gleason-Mitchell and Jeff lived unneurotic in hotels in Great Yarmouth, a caravan parkland and "camping in a precise tiny structure connected Caister beach" successful Norfolk earlier they ended up successful Ipswich.

The mum told Great Yarmouth Borough Council she and her girl were "homeless" and escaping domestic abuse from her ex.

She besides falsely claimed Jeff was Isabella's biologic dada and refused a location by Bedfordshire Council for her and the youngster arsenic she wanted to enactment with her partner.

After moving into the unit, CCTV showed the toddler being pushed astir successful her chair, wearing sunglasses with the hood up, concealing her head, it was said.

The tribunal heard the mates went with Isabella retired connected June 26, visiting a barber store truthful Jeff could get a haircut.

They returned astatine 3.15pm with CCTV showing the youngster's legs and feet moving successful her pushchair - suggesting she was inactive alive.

The tribunal was told this is believed to the past representation of Isabella and that she had died aboriginal that day.

Ms Howes besides told the tribunal that some Jeff and Gleason-Mitchell were habitual cause users.

She said a “safe, due and evident inference tin beryllium drawn that some wilfully exposed Isabella to drugs”.

The mates person been remanded into custody to beryllium sentenced connected December 13.