Grandmother told ‘killer’ mum to fight for her child

A £90,000 a year City worker accused of murdering her four-week-old daughter was told by her mother to ‘stop wallowing in self-pity’ after the baby’s death. Financial consultant Clare Sanders, 44, and her Ukrainian lover Thomas Vaitkevicius, 45, allegedly shook little Eva on three separate occasions during her short life. Eva was rushed to hospital after neighbours heard the mother screaming: ‘My baby, my baby,’ on 1 September 2017, the Old Bailey has heard. She was pronounced dead shortly before…

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