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Joanne Sharkey, 55, admitted responsibility over the death of the baby boy, who was named Callum by police investigating his death in 1998. Sharkey, aged 28 at the time of the baby’s death ...
A mum who killed her newborn baby almost 30 years ago has been spared jail. Joanne Sharkey, who was suffering from post natal depression following the birth of her first child, then buried the ...
But Joanne Sharkey, a mother who killed her newborn son almost 30 years ago, before placing his body in a bin bag and leaving it in a wooded area in Warrington, walked free from court. How is it ...
A mother who killed her own newborn baby boy more than 25 years ago has avoided jail. Joanne Sharkey was today given a two-and-a-half-year suspended prison sentence after admitting manslaughter by ...
Joanne Sharkey, from Liverpool, was identified as the baby's mother in July 2023 after cold case detectives found a DNA match for her older son, Matthew Sharkey, who had been arrested on suspicion ...
Joanne Sharkey, 55, remained unidentified until 2023, when her eldest son's DNA was added to the police database, leading to her arrest. Sentencing her at Liverpool Crown Court, Mrs Justice Eady ...
That was how a resident of a cul-de-sac in Liverpool described the moment she learned her neighbour for more than 30 years - Joanne Sharkey - had been charged with the 1998 killing of her baby boy.
Joanne Sharkey, 55, had pleaded guilty in March to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and endeavouring to conceal the birth of a child - following her arrest 25 years after ...
London’s rivers don’t have to be like this — they could be clean and largely sewage free. Instead, Thames Water appears to be ignoring the environment when it should be respecting it. In ...
The Cheshire Police previously announced last year that Liverpool native Joanne Sharkey, 55, had been arrested and charged decades after her child, known as “Baby Callum," was found in a wooded ...
Sharkey was originally charged with murdering her son, who was seemingly minutes' old when he was suffocated, and concealing the birth of a child in April 2024. But she admitted an alternative ...