Rachael Davies, 26, of Wharrage Road, Alcester, had pleaded guilty at Stratford magistrates court in March to concealing the dead baby's birth.

The magistrates committed Davies, who works at the Leamington branch of Mothercare, to Warwick Crown Court to be sentenced because they did not consider their own powers were sufficient.

They also ordered that a pre-sentence report should be prepared on Davies, who it was said was not suffering from any psychiatric problems.
She was due to appear at the crown court on Friday, but the case was taken out of the list when, following the preparation of the pre-sentence report, her lawyers believed she should be examined by a psychiatrist before being sentenced.

It is expected that it will take until mid-June for the psychiatrist to see Davies, who could face a sentence of up to two years imprisonment, and prepare a report on her.

Named 'baby Lily' by the police, the newborn's body was found wrapped in pyjamas in a carrier bag at a weir on the River Alne at Great Alne by a 13-year-old boy who was out with his family in May last year.
That triggered a huge police search for the mother of the tragic baby, who it was said had never been fed and had been found with the umbilical cord still attached.She was said to have a fractured skull and collarbone.

Davies was linked to baby Lily by DNA and was arrested in December.
She told officers she had not realised she was pregnant, and had gone into labour during the night and gave birth standing up in the kitchen of her home where she lives with her parents.

Davies said she put the lifeless baby's body and her pyjamas in a carrier bag which she put in the boot of her car.

The next morning she phoned to say she would be late for work – and drove to Wood Lane in Great Alne where she put the bag containing the body into the river.

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