A mother who starved her three-month-old daughter then allowed the body to decompose inside a cooler bag in a shed has pleaded guilty to manslaughter mid-way through her murder trial.

Tamara Louise Thompson, 38, had been on trial accused of failing to provide proper nourishment to baby Destiny, whose ‘extensively decomposed’ body was discovered wearing a nappy and wrapped in a muslin cloth inside a cooler bag in July last year.

“Immeasurably sad.”

That was how Supreme Court judge Stephen Hall described the death of three-month-old Destiny at the hands of her mother. Read the full story here ▶