Parents accused of killing baby daughter go on trial

10-week-old Lily-Mai St George was found with rib fractures and a serious head injury in 2018
By Alice Kemp-Habib

Wood Green Crown Court

The parents of a 10-week-old girl who died in 2018 will appear in court this week after being charged by police with her murder.

Lily-Mai St George was found unresponsive at a flat in Tottenham on January 31st, 2018. She was rushed to North Middlesex Hospital in a “critical and life-threatening condition” and transferred to Great Ormond Street Hospital, where she died two days later. An inquest found she had 19 rib fractures and a serious head injury at the time of her death.

Lily-Mai’s parents – Darren Hurrell, 25, of Meadow Lane in Derby, and Lauren Saint-George, 25, of Bonnington House in Enfield – will appear for trial at Wood Green Crown Court. They have been charged with the following offences:

Murder – victim under one year old

Cause / allow the death of a child / vulnerable adult.

Manslaughter

Assault / ill-treat / neglect / abandon a child / young person to cause unnecessary suffering / injury

Their trial starts on Monday, June 13th.

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