You are about to read the shocking story of a Woman who kept four dead babies hidden inside
All through the 20 years, this woman, Bernadette Quirk, while
According to her daughter, Bernadette Quirk wrapped the four tiny newborns in
Her horrific secret was first exposed in 1998 when daughter Catherine – then 16 – put her hand in the bin and “felt a baby’s head”.
The teenager and her sister Joanne Lee begged their mum to give the baby a proper burial – but the two girls were unaware their mum had hidden three other newborn girls.
It was only in 2009 that their mum’s full gruesome secret was laid bare, with ex-nurse Quirk later admitting four counts of concealing a birth at Liverpool Crown Court.
Joanne, who has now written a book Silent Sisters about the horror, told Liverpool Echo: “I’d always wanted to write a book because my life had been a jigsaw puzzle which I wanted to piece together.
“But I will never know the whole truth. I will never know how she hid those babies all those years.
“Where were they in between her moving houses? How do you hide the smell of a dead body? The smell is indescribable. It clings to you and you can taste it.”
The full shocking secret was exposed when the family moved house for a forth time and the girls saw the same red bin.
Joanne said: “We were helping her move. The moment we saw the red bin, we both froze.
“Mum started screaming when she saw us staring at the bin. Of course, we didn’t imagine there was anything in there but her reaction made us suspicious.
“Just seeing the bin sent shivers down my spine. The memories of what had happened still haunted me, every day.”
Joanne called the police, who searched the home and discovered the remains of three babies.
She said: “I felt sickened there were three. I hadn’t really believed there could even be one. It was like a real-life horror film, with my mother as the monster.”
