A heartbroken mother from Essex (England) who suffered a miscarriage was arrested for murder after police found blood in her bathroom.
Lauren
Bull, 29, didn’t even know she was pregnant when she woke up in a pool of blood
in the early hours of November 4. She fainted three times and was rushed
to hospital with a collapsed womb.
As
she was being treated, she told medical staff the baby’s body might still be in
the bathroom, so police went to the house.
But
the next day officers arrested Lauren, who had been pregnant for 18-22 weeks,
along with her partner Jack Walker, on suspicion of murder and they spent a
night in Chelmsford police station cells.
A
day later, police had more of an idea of what really happened and dropped the
charge – but they still thought the couple could have done something wrong, and
accused them of concealing the birth of a child.
Now
the couple say their lives have become a
‘living nightmare’ because of this experience which has meant they were unable
to bury the child’s body and even turned their neighbours against them.
They
said before leaving for hospital they quickly cleaned the bathroom because they
didn’t want their other two children to worry when they woke up in the morning.
‘There was a lot of blood
on the floor and I didn’t want the kids to see,’ MailOnline reported Lauren saying.
The
paper said this seems to be why police thought there was something suspicious.
Jack
Walker, an electrician, said he and Lauren hadn’t done anything wrong and only
tried to hide what had happened for the sake of their daughter, 4, and 16
month-old son.
He said:
‘We didn’t want our son to touch anything because he picks up stones and thinks
they’re sweets, so we covered everything up.’
-UK Metro
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