Mother of four-year-old Hamzah Khan, whose remains were found 21 months after he starved to death in a house in Bradford, has continued to claim child benefit for the youngster, a jury has heard.
Amanda Hutton left her son's body to mummify in her bedroom after he starved to death, and his body was found when police went into her house, almost two years after he died, Sky news reported.
Prosecutors told a jury trying Hutton for manslaughter that the 43-year-old made no call for assistance about her son's plight and even ordered pizza within hours of his death.
The court also heard that during the time of death, Khan was wearing baby clothes that fitted him and his development was "comparable to a child aged between one year and 18 months".
The prosecution case was that Hutton was guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence on two grounds- that she failed to feed him adequately and failed to seek medical assistance for him.
However Hutton denied the single charge.
