Brit teacher, 35, cried ‘I’ve killed my son’ as toddler, 2, found dead in her flat after custody battle in Finland
A BRITISH mother charged with killing her toddler in Finland has been identified as a 35-year-old Cambridge graduate.
Ayesha Ali, 35, was arrested by murder cops on Wednesday – four days after her two-year-old son Adam was found dead in her apartment.
The Sunday Mirror reports police broke into her apartment in Espoo, near Helsinki, last Sunday after she allegedly told friends and family she was going to kill herself.
Ppolice found Adam was not breathing, and Ayesha with an injury to her neck.
Witnesses claimed she was led away in a wheelchair repeatedly saying: “I’ve killed my son, I’ve killed my son!”
One neighbour said she heard a female voice shouting from outside the apartment block, which alerted her to the shocking ordeal.
She said: “There was a friend of hers looking up at her apartment shouting, ‘Ayesha! We’re here to help you. We can talk about it’.
“She was shouting back that she wanted to die.”
The neighbour said officers attempted CPR on the boy, and his mum told them: "He turned blue and is very cold."
Another neighbour said: “She had only moved in at the start of December. I thought it was an unusual time to move in.
“There was her and the baby but no father. I never saw her with a man. He was a lovely little boy – very cute.”
Ayesha, a freelance English teacher originally from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs, moved to Finland with Adam and his dad Adnane Osmane in January last year, after Adnane got a job as an assistant professor of physics at Aalto University.
Their eight-year marriage ended shortly after the move, with Adnane filing for divorce in May and launching a child custody battle.
Court documents are said to show Ayesha moved into a homeless shelter before the agreed to share custody of their son.
Documents show he stayed with his mother every Sunday to Tuesday.
Police in Helsinki said the mother has admitted killing her son.
But Ayesha’s father Imtiaz, 73, said last night: “It was an accidental death. She hasn’t admitted to murder.”
The Foreign Office said: “We are in contact with the Finnish authorities.”
Ayesha appeared in court charged with homicide and will reappear in April.
A police spokesman said the mother had “acknowledged the deed”.
He added: "No other persons have been in the apartment and no other persons are involved in the incident.”
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