{"id":479380,"date":"2026-03-16T23:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/479380\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:31:09","slug":"mother-appears-in-court-charged-with-murder-after-baby-falls-from-building-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/479380\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother appears in court charged with murder after baby falls from building | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mother has appeared in court charged with murdering her 18-day-old daughter after the infant fell from a residential property.<\/p>\n

Zahira Byjaouane, 43, was not asked to enter a plea at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday.<\/p>\n

She spoke only to confirm her name, date of birth and address during the minutes-long hearing.<\/p>\n

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Byjaouane waved to loved ones in the public gallery as she entered and left the dock of the court.<\/p>\n

Her case was deemed too serious to be seen at the magistrates’ court and was sent to the Old Bailey, where she is set to appear on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Judge John Zani told her: “This case has to be dealt with at the higher court and you will be appearing at the Central Criminal Court in two days’ time which is March 18.<\/p>\n

“It is in custody by reason of the nature of the allegations. Bail does not arise in this court.”<\/p>\n

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Police officers attended Horseferry Road in Westminster, central London, on Saturday morning, following reports that a baby had fallen from a height, the Met Police said over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The girl was pronounced dead in hospital.<\/p>\n

Flowers were left near the Peabody Estate building on Sunday morning, where a police cordon had been lifted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother has appeared in court charged with murdering her 18-day-old daughter after the infant fell from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-479380","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\/479380","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=479380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}