A mother accused of murdering her toddler told police that she had heard a “blood curdling scream” coming from his room before finding her partner holding his body, a court has been told.
Rachel Fee, 31, also indicated to police that she believed a seven-year-old boy had killed her son Liam.
Jurors at the High Court in Livingston were played a video of a police interview with the mother.
During the recording Ms Fee said that she panicked when she heard her partner, Nyomi Fee, 28, shouting “Rachel, Rachel, Rachel!” and got up from the couch to run to his room. “As I got in Nyomi was just putting Liam on the floor,” she told officers. “I immediately saw he was pure white and lifeless. I shouted, ‘What the f***?’ and Nyomi said, ‘I don’t know. I don’t know’.”
Ms Fee then went on to say that as she walked out of the bedroom she saw the seven-year-old boy standing at the door of the room.
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She said she knew “he’d done something” so started screaming at him asking him what he had done.
The court also heard from DC Gary McMillan, who described the scene at the house as chaotic. The jury was told that police recovered a makeshift cage.
The two women deny murder and trying to defeat the ends of justice. The trial continues.