A schoolgirl mum harboured a terrible secret for more than 50 years - that she smothered her baby son to death with a cushion.Melody Cassan, now 67, was so wracked with guilt and torment about 18-day-old Wayne Harper's killing in 1963 that she finally confessed to the police.The confession led to her pleading guilty at Leicester Crown Court yesterday to committing manslaughter when she was just 15 years old.Cassan (nee Harper) was so terrified by what she had done, in the lounge of her home in...
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