The mother of Mikaeel Kular has admitted to murdering her toddler today, after subjecting him to repeated and brutal assaults.
Rosdeep Adekoya confessed to a reduced charge of culpable homicide after admitting she killed her three-year-old, putting his body in a suitcase and hiding it under a bush behind a house.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard of disturbing internet searches found on Adekoya’s computer, including ‘I love all my children except one’, ‘Why am I so aggressive with my son’ and ‘I find it hard to love my son’.
Mikaeel’s initial disappearance from his Edinburgh home in January triggered a huge search involving police, firefighters, mountain rescue teams and members of the public, but Adekoya admitted today that she brutally beat her son on the 12 January and he died from his injuries two days later. She then drove the body to Kirkcaldy, Fife, and hid it.
‘The Crown accepts that the accused had no intention to kill Mikaeel and that the assault perpetrated upon him, although severe, fell short of the wicked recklessness required for murder,’ said advocate depute Alex Prentice, explaining the charge of culpable homicide.
The toddler had more than 40 separate injuries to his body, including bruises to his back, chin and cheek, trauma to the brain, haemorrhage in the spinal cord and injuries to his arms.