Bristol mother arrested on suspicion of child destruction following the stillbirth of her twins told police that God killed them, when her story that a midwife was to blame was questioned.
Bristol Crown Court has heard claims that mother-of-five Faiso Sahil had injected herself in Southmead Hospital, hoping to speed up the births.
But a jury has been told she used a drug actually designed to help expel the placenta after birth, which killed the babies by reducing their blood and oxygen supply – then accused her midwife of injecting her.
Sahil, 35, of Ullswater Road, Southmead, who is not present for her trial, denies perverting the course of justice.
The jury heard yesterday that Sahil told police: "I don't blame anybody. Allah gave me the twins and Allah killed them. That's what I told everyone in my house."
In an interview with Detective Constable Sarah Benfield, of the Bristol-based Child Abuse Investigation Team, Sahil said: "I didn't kill my children. I want them and I love them...
"I didn't inject myself. I wanted the babies to be born because I was in pain all that month."
The court has heard Sahil was admitted to Southmead Hospital in April 2007, when she was 37 weeks pregnant.
Though she complained of abdominal pain and contractions, nursing staff, who kept close scrutiny on her, did not believe that she was going into labour. On April 11, a doctor confirmed the babies had died overnight.
Sahil admitted to having midwifery experience in her native Somalia, where the drug Oxytocin was used to speed up labour. The jury has been told Sahil had access to the drug Syntometrine on a trolley in her delivery room, and the word "Oxytocin" was written on the box.
After the unborn twins died, Sahil claimed it was midwife Caroline Randall who gave her an injection via an intravenous cannula in her left hand to speed up labour.
She told police she thought one ampoule of the drug was used – as opposed to telling Dr Simon Grant, of Southmead Hospital, that two were used.
Sahil admitted that she had tried to withdraw her allegation concerning Miss Randall, but said that was due to pressure from her family in order for the twins not to have a post mortem and be buried within 24 hours according to her Muslim faith.
In interview, she said: "She (the midwife) gave it to me and I don't know how I can prove it, because I was alone in that room."
The jury has heard no fingerprints or DNA was recovered from drugs or syringes recovered from Sahil's hospital room.
Barristers for Sahil will make a closing speech today before Judge Mark Horton sums the case up and the jury retires to consider its verdict.
The case continues at Bristol Crown Court.
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