Moment drug addict father-of-25 gives his girlfriend, 23, a thumbs up as she cradles their dead baby after the pair 'tortured' the child and tried to fake her death aboard a bus


Jurors were shown shocking CCTV footage of Wiltshire giving his younger partner the thumbs up as she got on to the London bus to carry out their awful plan

Jeffrey Wiltshire (right inset), 52, and Rosalin Baker (left inset), 25, were cleared of murder at London's Old Bailey but will now be jailed after jurors found them guilty of causing her death. At an earlier hearing, jurors were told Baker (left) was given the 'thumbs up' by her Wiltshire as she boarded the number 25 in Stratford, east London, holding Imani. CCTV cameras captured the Baker kissing Wiltshire - who claims to have 23 children - then boarding the bus with Imani strapped in front of her in a sling at 9.28am (main). Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson QC said they behaved this way because Baker was going to 'stage the discovery of a death of which she was in fact already fully aware and to involve unsuspecting members of the public in that deception'. At 9.56am, Baker was seen on CCTV to look at Imani for the first time and beckon over fellow passenger, Fjoralba Shmitz. Imani, who had been born prematurely at 28 weeks, was rushed to hospital but she had already died from injuries caused by her being thrown against the floor or a wall. She also had a fractured wrist as a result of her arm being pulled or twisted, and at least 40 rib fractures.

Jeffrey Wiltshire, 52, and Rosalin Baker, 25, were cleared of murdering 16-week-old Imani but found them guilty of causing her death at London's Old Bailey

Baker was filmed sitting on the lower deck sending text messages and speaking on her mobile phone for 20 minutes before looking at her daughter for the first time during the journey.

Call records revealed that one of the texts she sent, to her sister, said: 'Imani is dead sis x'.

She then beckoned over a woman, Fjoralba Shmitz, who raced to help, but found Imani had already stopped breathing and her face was 'ice cold'.

The panicked passenger took the baby in her arms in a desperate bid to help before another woman, Viviana Caidedo, phoned an ambulance and attempted CPR at the operator's instructions.

Baker sat emotionless using her phone as other distraught passengers tried to help, with one noting Iman's lips were cold, before the bus was stopped and she was rushed to Newham General Hospital.

Medical examiners found she had a fractured skull and serious head injuries, along with more than 40 other fractures, and she was pronounced dead.

During their Old Bailey trial, Baker blamed her abusive and controlling boyfriend and claimed he had tried to 'frame' her by forcing her on to the bus with their dead child in a sling.

But former rapper Wiltshire, who claimed to have fathered 25 children, insisted: 'I'm not a life taker, I'm a baby maker.'

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