Dead Babies With Bin Kept In An Air Freshener: Bernadette Quirk Alcoholic Hid Four Years Stillbirths For

A mother faces jail for hiding the bodies of four girls born dead, bearing three decomposing bodies in her wardrobe for a maximum of 20 years.

Bernadette Quirk, 55, a baby buried in a cemetery unlawfully and wrapped the other three - two of whom were twins - in the newspaper and rags and stuffed them in a small plastic container with an air freshener.

The twice-married alcoholic even moved around with her body bin between the properties leased over a period of 10 years.

Daughter Joanne Lee made the gruesome find Quirk Hosting Rainhill, near St Helens, Merseyside, last July and alerted police who opened an investigation into murder. Quirk said the baby to term, were all born dead at his home, insisting: "They do not make noise and they did not move."

The police could not prove otherwise and Quirk could not be accused of concealing the birth.

Judge Henry Globe QC said Quirk, who pleaded guilty: "These are serious offenses All options remain open to the sentence, including a guard .."

Liverpool Crown Court heard that the births occurred between 1985 and 1995, but Quirk could not recall the exact dates because of his "chaotic" lifestyle and alcohol problems.

Ian Morris, defending, said: "She accepts she has given birth and have no birth registration, but she cautions that all children born dead ..

"She describes this period of his life as chaotic and out of control. She has buried those memories. It was a struggle for the police to identify the dates."

The police found that Quirk, also the mother of Christopher and Catherine, said she started drinking after his marriage breakdown in the middle 1980s and had a number of sexual partners.

She could identify the two fathers of babies found in his house, but not the father of the girl buried in the family plot in the local cemetery.

Mr. Morris said Quirk could not remember the birth of her fourth child, but tests showed she was the mother of all four. Cause of death has not yet been established, but the four babies had skeletal abnormalities and fetal growth.

Dc Bickley Neil said: "The bodies of three babies whose twins were found wrapped in sheets, newspapers and plastic bags .. They were very decomposed None of the pregnancies were recorded .."

The case was adjourned until October 11. Relatives of Quirk, now intends to give all babies a decent burial.

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