The friend said: ‘She was on her own at home when the baby started to come – her mum and brother weren’t there.
‘She can’t have been thinking clearly with what was going on with her dad. She must have panicked and put it in a plastic carrier bag. The police found the baby in the wheelie bin in the garden.’
The teenager who was arrested for murder allegedly gave birth on her own before dumping her baby when relatives left her to go and see her dying father.
The girl, 15, was not feeling well so did not go with her family when they were called urgently to go to the hospital to be at his side, a friend has revealed.
She did not realise she was in labour and delivered the baby on her own in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.