{"id":477760,"date":"2026-03-16T00:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/477760\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T00:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:12:08","slug":"mother-charged-with-murder-after-her-newborn-baby-died-in-fall-from-residential-building-in-london-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/477760\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother charged with murder after her newborn baby died in fall from residential building in London | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mother has been charged with murder after the death of her baby daughter in central London on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Officers attended Horseferry Road in Westminster, after reports an infant had fallen from a height at around 7.30am.<\/p>\n<p>An 18-day-old baby girl was taken to hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Zahira Byjaouane, 43, has been charged with murder and remanded in custody, the Metropolitan Police said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>She will appear at Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A police cordon was put in place on Saturday, covering most of Great Peter Street, just off Horseferry Road. This had been removed by Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Flowers and a toy animal had been left near the Peabody Estate<\/p>\n<p>Detectives from the Met&#8217;s Specialist Crime Command are leading the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother has been charged with murder after the death of her baby daughter in central London on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-477760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}