She was convicted following what was a landmark prosecution of the crime of child destruction. The Crown alleged she had aborted the baby, probably during a trip to Liverpool during a half-term school break.
Prosecutor Neil Fryman told the jury it was not known if Mrs Mohammed, of Wray Gardens in Levenshulme, Manchester, had carried out the abortion on herself or whether someone else terminated her pregnancy.
But it was alleged her motive was that the child was illegitimate, having been conceived during an affair while her husband was in Ethiopia.
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In Canada, what she did is entirely permissible.
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