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| Man guilty of murdering toddler found in bathroom | Man guilty of murdering toddler found in bathroom |
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| Isabella's body was found with "traumatic injuries", the trial heard | Isabella's body was found with "traumatic injuries", the trial heard |
| A man has been found guilty of murdering a toddler whose body was left in a locked bathroom. | A man has been found guilty of murdering a toddler whose body was left in a locked bathroom. |
| Isabella Rose Wheildon was found dead in a pushchair at a temporary housing unit in Sidegate Lane, Ipswich, on 30 June last year. | Isabella Rose Wheildon was found dead in a pushchair at a temporary housing unit in Sidegate Lane, Ipswich, on 30 June last year. |
| Her mother Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell and former partner Scott Jeff, both 24 and previously from Bedfordshire, denied murder and were standing trial. | |
| Jeff was found guilty of murder, while Gleason-Mitchell was found not guilty of murder, but she admitted causing or allowing the death of a child. | |
| The trial at Ipswich Crown Court heard Jeff had only been in Isabella's life for 36 days before she died. | |
| Gleason-Mitchell had told a friend that her daughter was dead, and that she had been in her pushchair for three days and was "going to start to smell". | |
| The couple had been on a night out the day before they were arrested | The couple had been on a night out the day before they were arrested |
| Gleason-Mitchell, of no fixed address, also previously admitted cruelty to a child in relation to cocaine, and cruelty to a child in relation to cannabis. | |
| Jeff, also of no fixed address, was also found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child, cruelty to a child in relation to cocaine, and cruelty to a child in relation to cannabis. | |
| Prior to living in Ipswich, the trial heard the couple had left the Biggleswade area of Bedfordshire and had lived in hotels in Norfolk, and in a tent on the beach in Caister, in order to get away from Isabella's father Thomas Wheildon. | |
| Isabella's body was found under a pile of blankets with "traumatic injuries" by a police officer. | Isabella's body was found under a pile of blankets with "traumatic injuries" by a police officer. |
| The trial, which began on 8 October, heard from expert witnesses that she had suffered "crash-like" injuries including broken and shattered bones. | The trial, which began on 8 October, heard from expert witnesses that she had suffered "crash-like" injuries including broken and shattered bones. |
| Gleason-Mitchell and Jeff were arrested a day after the discovery of Isabella's body, and the court heard the pair were picked up by police having had a night out at the Corn Exchange pub in Bury St Edmunds. | |
| Members of Isabella's family sobbed in the public gallery as they learned of what happened to her in that time. | Members of Isabella's family sobbed in the public gallery as they learned of what happened to her in that time. |
| Sentencing is due on 13 December. | |
| The judge Mr Justice Garnham addressed Jeff and said: “I am obliged by law to impose a life sentence on you; I will have to fix a minimum term for you to serve." |