Mother who 'starved her son, 4, to death' and kept his mummified corpse in her bedroom for TWO YEARS claimed child benefit while he was dead

A mother starved her son to death and then lived with his mummified corpse for almost two years, a court has heard. Amanda Hutton, 43, kept the tiny corpse of four-year-old Hamzah Khan in a cot in her bedroom after he died of malnutrition. His growth had been so stunted that he was still wearing a baby-gro meant for an infant six to nine months old when he was found. Bradford Crown Court heard his mother went on with her life while his body decomposed. Within hours of Hamzah’s death, she ordered a pizza – and continued to claim child benefit in his name. Hutton is on trial accused of his manslaughter by gross negligence on two grounds – failing to feed her son adequately and failing to seek medical help for him when it was needed. She denies the charge.

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