Melody Casson admits killing baby son Wayne and hiding the truth for 50 years - Daily Mail
smothered son Wayne to stop his cries waking her family Young mother said she had accidentally killed him by falling asleep on him But she admitted killing last year, telling police: 'I can't take no more pain' 67-year-old spared jail after... All along, Melody Casson had claimed she accidentally killed her son Wayne by falling asleep on him, and ‘deceived’ a coroner into believing her, a court heard. But racked with ‘self-torment and self-loathing’, she finally admitted how she placed a cushion over the 18-day-old’s face to stop him crying and waking her family one night in 1963. In a haunting confession, Casson, now 67, told a policeman who... When I was 15 I had a baby, and he cried and he cried and cried and cried incessantly. ‘I put a cushion over his face and smothered him and killed him. She also told the officer how another son, Darren, died in 1983 in a car crash when he was 18 – two days after the 20th anniversary of baby Wayne’s death. She believed this was some form of ‘punishment’ for her treatment of Wayne. Casson was given a two-year jail term, suspended for two years with supervision, after admitting manslaughter at Leicester Crown Court on Monday. Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
