The trial heard that Blain had said she was struggling with post-natal depression after Thea’s birth.<\/p>\n
On the day of Thea’s death, she was visited in the morning by a social worker who said the baby was in her crib, and that the mother had complained of feeling tired. <\/p>\n
Blain was due to take Thea to visit her paternal grandmother Laura Wilson in Ayrshire later that day.<\/p>\n
But early in the afternoon Blain called Wilson’s mobile phone. The call was answered by her husband Alan, who told the court he had heard a child screaming in the background. <\/p>\n
He told the court: “I had never heard anything like it.<\/p>\n
“It was piercing and extremely loud. I thought it was an older child doing it, but then I realised it was the baby who was screaming. <\/p>\n
“She [Blain] did mumble ‘I do not know what to do’. She did not sound right. I said: ‘Hang up and call an ambulance’.”<\/p>\n
Blain also spoke on the phone to Thea’s grandmother, saying she had found the baby with a bump on her head. <\/p>\n
Later, when they met at the hospital, Blain told her another child who was in the flat “had done it”. <\/p>\n
Blain had also spoken on the phone earlier to a support worker, telling her that another child had taken Thea out of the cot and dropped her. <\/p>\n
When the support worker arrived at the flat she dialled 999 after seeing that Thea was cold, not making any sounds and looked an “awful colour”. <\/p>\n
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