A UK mother was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison for hiding her baby in a drawer for three years, feeding her through a syringe.

A mother who kept her baby daughter in a drawer under her bed for almost three years has been jailed for seven and a half years in Britain.

A woman kept her baby in a drawer under her bed until she was discovered weeks before her third birthday. The youngster, discovered at the family home in Cheshire, was found with matted hair, deformities and rashes.