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For any copyright, please send me a message. A financial consultant accused of murdering her four-week-old daughter sent photos of her breast-feeding to the dad to 'guilt trip him to come home,' a court heard. City worker Clare Sanders, 43, and Lithuanian lover Tomas Vaitkevicius, 45, are accused of shaking little Eva on three separate occasions during the first weeks of her young life. Sanders and Lithuanian-born Vaitkevicius both deny murder and an alternative count of causing or allowing the death of a vulnerable child. The infant died on September 2, 2017, with a post-mortem exam later finding the cause of death to be 'traumatic brain and spinal cord injury'. Giving evidence at the Old Bailey DC Campbell told jurors that the mum had said the couple had a 'troubled' relationship and frequently argued about child care. Whenever Vaitkevicius left Sanders alone with little Eva, she would send 'manipulative' messages to him, the Old Bailey heard. 'You don't have to like me but why would you leave Eva?' one text from Sanders read. The mother would send pictures of the baby girl lying on her chest while breast-feeding to 'guilt trip' the father, the court heard. 'She explained they had quite a troubled start to their relationship, she had been going through divorce at the time. 'She had fallen pregnant unexpectedly having previously thought she was unable to get pregnant and she said they had argued quite a lot and she was worried about what we could see of that on the telephone,' the witness said. 'She said there were occasions were she was being manipulative,' DC Campbell added. 'The focus of the arguments was Thomas often leaving her alone with Eva?' asked Bernard Richmond, defending Vaitkevicius. 'Yes that's right,' DC Campbell replied. Cross-examining, Sally O'Neill, QC, for Sanders, said: 'One particular message said words to the effect of: "you don't have to like me but why would you leave Eva". 'She said the examples of manipulation was sending him pictures of Eva on her breast trying to breastfeed her and she said she was doing that to try and guilt trip him to come home and in fact it did work because he did come home after she sent those pictures.' 'Yes,' DC Campbell replied. The Old Bailey also heard claims that Sanders' mobile phone had been used to search 'shaken baby syndrome NHS', 'Shaking babies' and 'baby is shaking' on 27 August 2017 - six days before Eva's death. Eva was rushed to St George's Hospital after concerned neighbour Karen Brewell called the London Ambulance Service when she heard Sanders screaming: 'My baby,', the court heard. Despite the best efforts of paramedics she was pronounced dead shortly before 7am and post-mortem gave the cause of death as 'traumatic bra
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