What Joanne Sharkey told police 25 years after 'horrendous' killing of newborn
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Joanne Sharkey was arrested on suspicion of murder of her infant son in 1998NewsAdam Everett, Greta Simpson and Patrick Edrich09:00, 22 Mar 2025A mother told police "you don't get away with everything forever" when they finally caught up with her two decades after she killed her newborn baby.Joanne Sharkey was only identified as the mother of Baby Callum, who was found dead in woodland near to Gulliver's World in 1998, via DNA findings after her other son was "arrested for an unrelated crime" decades later.Article continues belowThe 55-year-old, of Denham Close in Croxteth, then confessed to having suffocated the tiny infant when he was seemingly minutes old, wrapped his body in bin bags and driven to the vicinity of the children's theme park in order to dispose of his body.Experts retrospectively diagnosed her as suffering from severe post-natal depression following the birth of her first born 20 months earlier, the Liverpool Echo reported.They described it as a condition which "subs...