Mum Who Took Grinning SELFIE With Baby She Battered To Death Has Been Jailed For Life

An evil mum who posed for selfies with her screaming baby before battering him to death has been jailed for life.

Emma Wilson, 25, grinned in the horrific snaps that showed injuries she had inflicted on 11-month Callum.

The heartless Wilson hit the rejected tot so violently it shook her downstairs neighbours’ ceiling and light fitting and she even tried to blame the killing on the baby’s two-year-old brother.

She said the “boisterous” and “rough” toddler was jealous and took a shocking picture of him wielding a pair of secateurs at Callum.

The baby was left blind and had nine ­fractured ribs and a broken arm and leg after enduring horrific violence in the weeks before he died of an “unsurviveable” brain injury.

Cruel Wilson claimed being a mum was “the best thing in the world”.

Yet she rejected Callum at birth, kept his existence a secret from even her doting parents and then had him buried in an unmarked communal grave.

 Wilson has been found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey last month, was sentenced by Judge Stephen Kramer.

He told her she was an adept liar and went on: “You must have been the person who caused the injuries which the court saw in photographs that for some reason you took.

“Your neighbours heard five or six loud bangs in quick succession.

“They caused the ceiling and light fitting to shake and the neighbours thought ‘the kid was going to come through the floor’.”

Wilson did not dial 999 until the morning after, telling emergency services her son was “lifeless and not doing anything”. He died two days later.

 During the trial, prosecutor Paul Dunkels said Callum’s fatal brain injury was caused by a direct blow or from striking his head against something while his broken leg may have been caused by banging against a hard surface.

One blow caused his retina to detach, leaving him blind.

The jury was told Callum’s older brother did not have the strength to inflict the severe injuries.

The judge told Wilson: “You come from a good, loving and supportive large family. You were clearly a good mother to your other son but for some reason you rejected Callum.

“If looking after two children was too much for you there was support there in the shape of your family and health ­professionals.

“You have shown no emotion throughout the trial – it is a troubling feature in this case.”

Reports stated Wilson has no mental disorder or illness. She left her son in hospital after he was born and kept his existence a secret for seven months while he was in foster care.

Even her parents were not aware they had a new grandchild.

Wilson said she put the baby up for adoption because her boyfriend at the time, Neil Richardson, “thought she couldn’t cope with two children”.

Mr Richardson had been believed to be the child’s father but it transpired the baby was the result of a fling with another man, Lee Workman. The trial was told he was unaware he was Callum’s dad until after the boy died in March 2011.

In late 2010 Wilson took Callum out of foster care and brought him to live at her council flat in Windsor, Berks.

However she continued to lie about the boy, even telling a nursery he was her cousin’s son.

She also gave a false address for the youngster to staff at Woodlands Park Village children’s centre in Maidenhead.

At her trial Wilson claimed that bruises on Callum’s face had been caused by an older, non-existent sister.

Mr Dunkels said staff noticed Callum change from a “happy, smiling baby” to “emotionless and listless”.

The jury was shown computer-generated images of the injuries, some of which Wilson tried to blame on her efforts to revive her son.

She said: “I was holding him really tight because his head was very heavy. Well, I was panicking, he wasn’t holding his head.”

She claimed she never hurt her son and said: “It’s the best thing in the world being a mum.”

Wilson sobbed as she was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 14 years. Family members in the public gallery were also in tears.

A serious case review into Callum’s death is set to be be published in four to six weeks.culled

*RIP Baby Callum....what a wicked wicked thing to do!