'The relationship was one-sided and volatile' - Court hears evidence from police interviews with woman accused of killing baby in West Bromwich
A woman who is accused of killing her baby girl in West Bromwich has been warned she faces the trial continuing in her absence if she continues to fail to attend.
Zara Arsalan, aged 31, also known as Sharandeep Talwandi, is standing trial at Coventry Crown Court accused of murdering baby Harleen Bains.
On Monday, the start of the fourth week of the trial, His Honour Judge John Cavanagh said she had not turned up again because, she had told the prison where she is being held, she 'had a sore throat."
He said: "I am reluctant to send the jury home again but if this does go on it runs the risk of prejudicing the trial and it will have to go ahead in her absence."
Instead the jury heard transcripts of a police interview made in the aftermath of the death of baby Harleen, who sustained head injuries at a maisonette in Caddick Crescent, West Bromwich, on July 23, 2020 and died the following day.
