A woman who concealed the remains of her two stillborn babies inside her home has been given a suspended sentence.
Egle Zilinskaite, 31, of Crwys Road in Cardiff, hid the bodies of two full-term babies inside her home after she delivered them 'alone and without medical support', a court was told.
Mother-of-five Zilinskaite concealed the pregnancies due to a 'fundamental distrust of authorities, both in the UK and based on her experiences in Lithuania' where she was born, a judge sitting at Cardiff Crown Court said on Thursday.
Zilinskaite was sentenced to two years' imprisonment suspended for two years, and is required to complete 200 hours of unpaid work and 15 days of Rehabilitation Activity Requirement.
The judge said that the deaths were 'not' her fault.
