First picture of where mum hid skeleton of her baby boy in bin liner for a decade as she is jailed
Victoria Gayle, 32, at first kept her son Kyzer's body in a cot in a junk-filled spare room, but moved it to the outhouse when she was kicked out of her own home
THE first picture of where a baby's body lay hidden for a DECADE has emerged as his mum is jailed for covering up his death.
Victoria Gayle, 32, has been jailed for 21 months after cops found little Kyzer in her mum's shed.
At first she kept her son's body in a cot in a junk-filled spare room, but moved it to the outhouse when she was kicked out of her own home.
Gayle told police she was traumatised by Kyzer's death - believed to be in 2005 - and concealed the body as she did not want to get in trouble.
The skeletal remains were found last year when cops launched a missing person's inquiry after the death of Gayle's daughter Ava in 2015.
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Ava had swallowed a button battery, a court heard. Investigators probed further and realised no one had seen her brother Kyzer since he left hospital after his birth in 2004.
Bill Emlyn Jones, prosecuting, said Kyzer was around 13 to 15 months old when he died of unknown cause.
Gayle was arrested last May on suspicion of murder after cops spoke to an ex-boyfriend believed to by Kyzer's dad.
She claimed she had struggled to cope raising two other kids and that when Kyzer was nine or ten months old she sent him to live with a different man she claimed was the father.
But a search at the home of the defendant's mother and step-father in Hendon, North-West London, revealed Kyzer's remains wrapped in a bin bag.
In the garden shed, officers found a cardboard box wrapped in a black bin liner. Inside was the decomposed remains of a human child.
Bill Emlyn Jones
Mr Emlyn Jones said: "In the garden shed, officers found a cardboard box wrapped in a black bin liner.
"Inside the box was a laundry bag containing an object wrapped entirely in grey adhesive tape.
"The tape was cut. Inside was the decomposed remains of a human child.
"That baby had been fully dressed in corduroy trousers and a jumper. It also had one leg entirely bandaged from foot to hip.";
In a statement to cops Gayle said she had found Kyzer dead in his cot, fully clothed, and covered up the death because she "feared that she would be judged and blamed for it".
She failed to explain why the baby was fully clothed, or why he was wearing a bandage, but "guessed he had a rash".
Mr Emlyn Jones added:"Police were aware she had recently conducted internet searches for sulphuric acid.
"She said she had simply been curious about it after developing a rash from bleach."
Kate O'Raghalliagh, mitigating, said Kyzer's remains had been kept in the spare room at Gayle's home for 11 years, and she'd only moved them to her mother's home after being evicted.
She said: "That room remained locked at all times. It was a room to which Ms Gayle alone had the key.
"Had the door been ajar one would have seen a pile of boxes, and the carry-cot would not be visible."
Gayle, of no fixed address, admitted preventing a lawful burial but denied perjury and perverting the course of justice. Those charges will lie on file.
Your little boy was denied a decent burial for so many years. The full truth of his sad and short life will never be known.
Judge Susan Tapping
Judge Susan Tapping, sentencing at Kingston crown court, told her: "All you have ever said is that one morning you woke up and discovered your dead son in his cot. Such tragic events do happen.
"In your case you reaction to such a shocking discovery was not to call an ambulance in case anything could be done to help Kyzer.
"Your little boy was denied a decent burial for so many years.
"The full truth of his sad and short life will never be known."
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