![]() we're all big-boned in our family,' he added. 'I had noticed she had put on some weight, but thought that was down to our family. Mr Mayo, snapping his fingers in court for emphasis, said: 'She just went hysterical.'Īsked by Mr Hankin if he had known his sister was pregnant, he replied: 'I didn't have any idea at all.' Mr Hankin asked: 'Did you (then) turn to see your mother on the doorstep, opening the unusually heavy and blood-stained bag? His mother, who was next to him at the door asking him to take out some recycling, had also seen him try to lift the bag. The Crown's KC asked: 'What did you see in the space underneath the bag after you lifted it up (off the front doorstep)?' ![]() Mr Mayo described coming across a bin bag outside on the front doorstep and, lifting it, remarked it was 'unusually heavy'. The next morning, at 8.23am, he had a text message from his sister which read: 'When you go outside, can you put the black bag in the bin, as it's just full of sick from last night, pls?' 'I had a feeling something wasn't right.' He then saw blood, describing them as 'blotches of the size of a 50p piece'.Īfter later taking a cup of tea to his sister, then in bed, around midnight, he went back to his room and tried to sleep, but told jurors: 'I didn't sleep very well. 'Did she tell you she would clear up the mess herself?' Mr Hankin asked, with Mr Mayo replying: 'Yes.' Mr Mayo had a police statement he made nearer the time read back to him, and agreed, in court, that on returning home Mayo told him she 'had bled heavily - and not to come in' to a sitting room. The court previously heard that by this time, his parents were upstairs as his father Patrick Mayo - who jurors heard had died just 10 days after the birth - was having home dialysis. ![]() Mr Mayo returned to the home he shared with his mother, father and sister at about 10.30pm. He described how Mayo then had a bath - her second of that day - at or shortly before 9pm, when he left the house to run an errand. Paris Mayo (left) has gone on trial accused of killing Stanley Mayo before putting him in a bin bag at her parents' home in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, on March 23, 2019 ![]() George Mayo, now 20 but 16 at the time, gave evidence at her Worcester Crown Court trial on Monday, describing how earlier on the day of the birth his sister was 'complaining of pain'.Īsked by the judge Mr Justice Garnham if he was 'told anything about the cause of the pain', Mr Mayo replied: 'To me, 16 years old, it was a lady thing - I didn't want nothing to do with it.' Afterwards, she allegedly asked her brother George take out a bin bag that felt 'unusually heavy'. She is alleged to have concealed both her pregnancy and her birth, alone and unaided, claiming she was unaware she was carrying. Paris Mayo, who is now 19 but was 15 at the time of the incident, has gone on trial accused of killing Stanley Mayo before putting him in a bin bag at her parents' home in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, on March 23, 2019. The brother of a woman accused of murdering her newborn son after hiding her pregnancy told a trial he had noticed her gain weight but assumed she was just 'big boned', a jury heard today.
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