Couple jailed for staging baby's death on a London bus

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A couple have been jailed for 11 years for staging the death of their baby daughter on a London bus.

Jeffrey Wiltshire, 52, and Rosalin Baker, 25, concocted a plan to get away with the horrific abuse of 16-week-old Imani which culminated in her death in September last year.

Rosalin Baker and Jeffrey Wiltshire Credit: Met Police

Baker blamed her abusive and controlling boyfriend and claimed he had tried to frame her by forcing her on to the bus with their dead child in a sling.

But Wiltshire, who claimed to have fathered 25 children, insisted: "I'm not a life taker, I'm a baby maker."

Baker called another passenger over, saying her daughter had stopped breathing Credit: Met Police

Following a trial at the Old Bailey last month, they were cleared of murder but convicted of causing or allowing the death of their daughter, who was on the child protection register.

Sentencing, Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC said Imani had been born prematurely and her last days must have been "terrifying, painful and bewildering". He told her parents:

He said they had told so many lies about what happened that their credibility was always in doubt.