Parents jailed for total of 44 years over death of buried boy, 3

A couple whose severely malnourished son's body was found buried in the garden of their former home were jailed for a total of 44 years. Three-year-old Abiyah's body was found behind a house in Birmingham, nine months after Tai and Naiyahmi Yasharahyalah's, 42 and 43, had been evicted from the property. The pair were were found guilty of causing the death of the child, whose body was found at the house in Clarence Road, Handsworth. Tai Yasharahyalah was jailed for 24-and-a-half years and Naiyahmi Yasharahyalah was given 19-and-a-half years during a hearing at Coventry Crown Court. During an eight-week trial, the court heard that the couple lived off grid and created their own bespoke belief system based on a mixture of elements that drew from New Age mysticism and West African religion. After the death of Abiyah, they kept his body inside their home for eight days, before embalming the body using frankincense and myrrh prior to a ritualistic burial in their garden. Sentencing, Mr Justice Wall their son died "as a result of your wilful neglect of him." He said the three-year-old had a "catalogue of injury and disease" at the time of his death. The couple heard that the judge believed they both realised how unwell their son was prior to his death. "I am sure that each of you played a part in starving him and failing to get medical care for him when the need for it was obvious to you," he said. "When Abiyah died you did not call an ambulance or seek any medical assistance in the hope that his life could be saved. "Instead you took his body into the back garden and there buried it." The judge's sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-... SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos:    / @skynewscourts   Follow Sky News on Twitter:   / skynews   and   / skynewsbreak   Like us on Facebook:   / skynews   Follow us on Instagram:   / skynews   For more content go to http://news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sky-n... Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...