{"id":477875,"date":"2026-03-16T01:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/477875\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:42:07","slug":"mother-charged-with-murder-of-18-day-old-baby-girl-in-central-london-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/477875\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother charged with murder of 18-day-old baby girl in central London | UK news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A mother has been charged with murdering her 18-day-old baby girl, who fell from a height at a property in central London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Zahira Byjaouane, 43, was arrested on Saturday morning after reports that a baby had fallen from a property on Horseferry Road in Westminster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The newborn was treated at the scene and taken to a major trauma centre, but was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Forensic officers were seen working in a third-floor flat on Saturday evening, while a police cordon remained in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">DCI Alison Foxwell said on Saturday: \u201cThe death of an infant is always an extremely tragic occurrence and officers are making urgent inquiries around the circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Flowers and a toy animal were left near the Peabody Estate building on Sunday morning after the cordon had been lifted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Police announced on Sunday that the mother had been charged with the baby\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Byjaouane has been remanded in custody and is due to appear at Westminster magistrates court on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother has been charged with murdering her 18-day-old baby girl, who fell from a height at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-477875","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\/477875","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=477875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}