Tai and Naiyahmi Yasharahyalah were responsible for their son Abiyah Yasharahyalah's tragic death.
A heartless couple are set to be caged after subjecting their three-year-old son to "breathtaking cruelty" before burying him in their back garden.
But jurors accepted prosecutors' claims that Abiyah was ill-treated by being denied adequate nutrition and medical care. Now, the Yasharahyalahs face lengthy sentences when they appear again at Coventry Crown Court today. Bail, which had been given to both defendants during the course of the trial, was removed after the convictions.
Malnutrition of the severity suffered by Abiyah was simply not seen in the UK, the barrister said, with the defendants having "for reasons best known to themselves" driven themselves and their son into conditions more commonly seen in the developing world. Jurors unanimously convicted both defendants after hearing how they kept the body of Abiyah in their bed for eight days, before embalming and burying the toddler in an 80cm-deep grave at the rear of their then-home in Handsworth.
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Tai and his 43-year-old wife, who was born in Birmingham, denied the charges against them, telling the court they did not act wilfully and believed Abiyah would recover from a flu-like condition.
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