Image caption Sinead Connett shielded her face as she arrived at court for sentencing 
 
 A woman who hid the body of her newborn son in a drain has been jailed. 
 
 Sinead Connett, 29, of Constables Way, Hertford, had pleaded guilty to concealing the boy's birth in August 2013 and secretly disposing of his body. 
 
 The infant was found by a plumber working at a property on Scartho Road, Grimsby, in February 2016. 
 
 Jailing Connett for 12 months at Grimsby Crown Court, the judge described her conduct as "deplorable". 
 
 Judge Jeremy Richardson QC added: "There is no escaping the fact that your dead son laid buried in a drain at your parents' home for three years. 
 
 "You gave that infant no dignity in death whatsoever." 
 
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 The court heard Connett had gone into labour on a flight back from a holiday on around the 6/7 August 2013. 
 
 She claimed the baby was stillborn and said she panicked and drove to her parents' house where she hid the body. 
 
 A post-mortem examination revealed the baby had been carried to the third trimester and the head was fractured, but the cause of death could not be ascertained. 
 
 Image caption The body of the baby was found by a plumber in a drain at a house in Grimsby 
 
 When the body was found Connett told police she had become pregnant after being raped on a night out, but DNA evidence showed the baby's father was her then partner and present husband Jonathan Layfield. 
 
 The court also heard she had been in London with her mother on the night she claimed to have been raped. 
 
 Judge Richardson added: "What we needed was the truth. What you provided was a catalogue of lies. 
 
 "You lied repeatedly and made a very serious but bogus allegation of rape." 
 
 He said Connett's conduct almost defied description and was "callous and calculated". 
 
 "You are the architect of this deplorable situation," the judge told her. 
 
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 They were a young couple with everything ahead of them. Sinead Connett and Jonathan Layfield were young, had promising careers and loving families to support them. 
 
 But the smiles on their wedding day masked an awful truth. Both held dark secrets involving lies, deception, lust and the tragic, still unexplained death of an unwanted baby. 
 
 Sinead was yesterday jailed for a year for hiding her unwanted, newborn son's body in a drain at her parents home in Scartho Road in Grimsby. 
 
 A judge said the career-driven HR executive was a 'callous, lying and calculating' woman who had robbed her newborn son of his dignity when he died at childbirth. She had wrapped him in bin liners and put him in the drain after keeping his body in the boot of her car for at least two days. 
 
 The Grimsby Telegraph can also reveal at the same time Connett was hiding her pregnancy from everyone she knew, including her partner, he was in a “sexualised” relationship a 16-year-old pupil at the school where he taught. 
 
 Within months both of their awful secrets would be exposed. 
 
 Layfield’s relationship was uncovered, ending his teaching career, while Connett’s gruesome attempt to hide their dead baby was finally revealed. 
 
 For Connett her attempt to cover up the truth would lead to court. A story that the baby was the result of being raped by a taxi driver on a work night out was a lie. 
 
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 And her boyfriend would be forced to quit his job before being banned from teaching and branded a “risk to students” by the authorities. 
 
 The shocking result of their combined actions was a world away from their lives just a few years earlier. 
 
 Connett, the bright young daughter of two teachers, Stuart and Anne, had moved to the University of Leeds from Grimsby in 2008. There she met Layfield, the smiling, cheerful Grammar school educated student from the Dorset seaside town of Poole. 
 
 When they graduated they set up home together to Bedfordshire where Connett started work in Human Resources with Tesco in St Albans while Layfield was appointed as a history teacher at Vandyke Upper School in nearby Leighton Buzzard. 
 
 But the promising start to their new life together soon started to unravel. 
 
 In July 2012 Layfield started sending “inappropriate” emails to a 16-year-old student. The emails would soon become sexual with Layfield fantasising about how he would have sex with the girl. 
 
 Just a few months later in October 2013, Connett fell pregnant with Layfield’s baby. It was a baby she never wanted. She and Layfield had discussed having children but had no plans to start a family. 
 
 Colleagues has described Connett as ambitious in her job and her own mother would say her daughter was “career minded” with little interest in starting a family. 
 
 Connett kept the pregnancy secret from her partner, parents, friends and colleagues. In May, on a trip home, she visited an abortion clinic in the Grimsby area but was told she had passed 28-weeks, so she could not receive the procedure. 
 
 For the next four months, Connett continued to conceal the pregnancy. 
 
 The only time her partner Layfield, still embroiled in his own illicit relationship with a schoolgirl, noticed any change in her condition was when the two travelled to Turkey in the week before she would give birth. He noticed Connett had been ill during the trip and “bloated”. 
 
 Connett made no plans for the baby, seeking no medical help and buying just one baby grow ahead of the birth she knew was coming. 
 
 On August 6 or 7 2013 when Layfield was at work, Connett gave birth to their baby son in the bath of their modern flat in St Albans. She would later tell police the baby was not breathing and she tried to resuscitate him, remaining in the bath for an hour. 
 
 Only Connett knows what happened in those minutes and hours after the baby was born. 
 
 Two or three days later, Connett, with the baby’s body in the boot of the car – wrapped only in a towel – drove two and a half hours north to her parents’ home in Grimsby. She knew her parents were on holiday when she made the trip. 
 
 Arriving at the home in Scartho Road, she removed the baby from her car, and carried it to an area concealed from the garden path by a small wall and trees. Wrapping the baby in three bin liners and trying them up, she then lifted the heavy iron cover and carefully lowered her son into the drain. 
 
 She then drove home to St Albans. 
 
 Back at home, Connett and Layfield appear to have continued life as normal. But whether Connett knew of his own deceit, it would soon become known in humiliating detail just a few short months later. 
 
 Layfield’s obsession with the young school student was exposed in March 2014 when her parents discovered the truth. Confronted by the school, Layfield admitted the relationship. He was immediately suspended, quit in May and, at a Professional Conduct Panel in November, was disqualified from teaching. 
 
 In its ruling, the panel said Layfield had engaged in a “sexualised” and “inappropriate relationship” with the girl and said he continued to “pose a risk to female students”. Layfield can only reapply to be a teacher in November 2019 but remains barred from teaching “indefinitely”. 
 
 Following his departure in disgrace from his first job in teaching, Connett and Layfield moved to a new home in Hertford. 
 
 Around the same time, Connett’s parents back in Grimsby started to become aware of problems with drainage from their downstairs toilet. 
 
 In February 2016 they called in a local plumber who, believing the problem was branches encroaching into an outside drain, used metal rods and then a shovel to try to clear the blockage from an outside drain. 
 
 Eventually, the plumber and Mr Connett recovered what appeared to be a bag from the drain. Wearing gloves, Mr Connett pulled back a black bin liner to reveal the top of a baby’s head. Unknown to him, the body was his grandson. 
 
 Police and crime scene investigators were called in and within a few weeks DNA tests revealed Sinead Connett was the mother and Layfield the father. 
 
 Connett, who despite the discovery, had not admitted any responsibility, would eventually admit to police the baby was hers, but insist it was as the result of a rape by a taxi driver she had taken a lift from on a night out. 
 
 She hid the pregnancy she claimed because the baby would have led to the end of her relationship with Layfield. 
 
 Her lies were exposed by police instigations which found she had not been on a night out on the day she claimed. Connett eventually admitted she had concealed her pregnancy and hidden the body. 
 
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 She has always maintained she was not responsible for the baby’s death. Pathologists were unable to establish whether the baby was born alive and whether injuries found on the infant’s body were not inflicted accidentally during it’s retrieval from the drain. 
 
 Tellingly, in interviews with police, there are references to Connett repeatedly saying she was worried about the “reputational damage” the case could cause to her. 
 
 “The officer in the case” said the case prosecutor, Jeremey Evans, “remarked at her lack of remorse and concern for her baby son”. 
 
 In the middle of the police investigation in November 2016, as the horrific truth began to emerge, Connett and Layfield were married. 
 
 Wedding pictures show the couple full of smiles and joy, families and friends with them to share their seemingly happy day. 
 
 As they toasted the life they would lead together, she taking her new husband’s surname, their baby son lay in a morgue, still unclaimed, nine months after it had been found. ||||| Judge Richardson said: "I have made the decision that you will go to prison immediately. You deceived everyone in a latticed web of lies. 
 
 "You are the architect of this tragedy. As a consequence of your truly deplorable conduct you have brought misery and shame on you and your family." 
 
 The child's body is thought to have been placed in the drain at the property in Grimsby, Lincs., on August 9, 2013, but wasn't found until almost three years later on February 11, 2016. 
 
 When initially questioned by police, Connett denied the baby was hers, but blood stains on the towel matched a voluntary DNA sample she gave to the police. 
 
 Connett then admitted the baby was hers but told officers he was the result of a rape by a taxi driver after a work night out in Hertfordshire in October 2012. 
 
 However, that lie was exposed when a series of texts to her colleagues and mother revealed she had not gone to the work night out but had instead met up with her mother in London. 
 
 She also told police she was unaware of the pregnancy until it was too late to terminate it, but police found medical records showing she had visited her GP in January 2013, who recorded she was pregnant. 
 
 Connett, recently of Hertford, Herts., eventually told officers in her final interview she gave birth to a stillborn baby boy on August 9, 2013 in the bathroom of her flat in Margate, Kent., without any medical help. 
 
 She later dumped the baby's body in the drainage pit at the back of her parent's home. 
 
 Connett's father phoned for a plumber three years later after the couple began having problems with their downstairs toilet and the body was found.
– Plumbers called to a UK home that had been having toilet trouble found a terrible reason for the issues: the body of a newborn boy. Sinead Connett, now 29, was recently sentenced to 12 months in prison following the plumber's discovery last year. She told cops she was "shocked" when she found out she was pregnant and scared her partner would ditch her; she confessed to giving birth alone in her apartment bathroom in August 2013, per the Telegraph. (She says the baby was stillborn, but claims she tried to revive him; the BBC reports a cause of death was never determined.) The former HR executive later dumped the baby's body, wrapped in a towel and plastic bags, in a drainage pit behind her parents' home two and a half hours away, knowing they were on a trip at the time. She had left the body in the trunk of her car for at least two days before dumping it, per the Grimsby Telegraph. In February 2016, Connett's father called a plumber about issues he and his wife were having with their downstairs toilet. The plumber believed the problem was a blockage in an outside drain; while attempting to clear it, the two men found the body. Connett was ultimately convicted of concealing the birth of a child. She told cops she didn't realize she was pregnant until it was too late to terminate, but medical records show her pregnancy was recorded in January 2013. She visited an abortion clinic in May but was told it was too late to get an abortion then. The baby was conceived with partner Jonathan Layfield, a teacher who got banned from teaching in 2014 due to an inappropriate relationship with a teen student. Despite all of these issues, the couple wed in November 2016. Connett was charged in May 2017 after her initial stories about the baby's conception were found to be lies.