It’s A Wicked World, Or Would You Say Negligence?

Truly, it is a wicked world, or how else can you explain parents literally supervising their own innocent’s death, and this in a silent, cruel manner.

Their son was just three years old, but the Vegan parents, after “opting out of society” and setting up their own ‘kingdom’  “severely malnourished” him until he died.

The body of the three-year old was later found buried in a garden, mail on Sunday reports.

Tai, 42, and Naiyahmi Yasharahyalah, 43, kept little Abiyah’s body in their bed for eight days after he died from a respiratory illness, worsened by a ‘restricted’ vegan diet which caused severe malnourishment, rickets, anaemia and stunted growth.

The couple then ’embalmed’ and buried the toddler in an 30in (80cm)-deep grave in the back garden of their then-home in Handsworth, Birmingham, in early 2020.

A two-month trial was told London-born Tai, a former fitness instructor and medical genetics graduate, and former shop worker Naiyahmi shunned mainstream society and were eventually arrested in December 2022 while living in a caravan in Somerset.

It’s A Wicked World, Or Would You Say Negligence?

A post-mortem on Abiyah’s ‘skeletal’ remains and other tests failed to identify how he died, but suggested he was also suffering from severe dental decay and six fractures to his right arm, legs and ribs, possibly caused by a fall six weeks before he died.

Abiyah was neglected by being given inadequate food and no care

Jurors deliberated for a total of 21 hours and 14 minutes over five days at Coventry Crown Court before unanimously convicting the couple this afternoon of neglect, perverting the course of justice and causing or allowing death.

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Abiyah was neglected by being given inadequate food and through a failure to summon any medical treatment as he battled a fatal respiratory illness.

The trial was told that police visited the property on Clarence Road in Handsworth three times.

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The visits were in February 2018 when Abiyah was alive, again in September 2021 after his death, and then in March 2022 to assist in the couple’s eviction for non-payment of rent.

On the second occasion, police bodycam footage recorded officers asking if a child lived at the address and Tai becoming aggressive and being arrested for being obstructive.

The welfare check did not lead to Abiyah being identified as missing, due to confusion over records related to the address.

A child safeguarding practice review is ongoing into Abiyah’s death, examining police and other agencies’ involvement with him during his life.

The trial was told that instead of contacting the NHS, the couple – who told police they had renounced British citizenship and had an ‘off-grid’ existence – tried to treat their son’s final illness with garlic and ginger.

The couple were both ‘extremely thin’ when they were arrested on December 9 2022, leading to the discovery of their son’s body five days later.

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Tai, who also used the first name Tai-Zamarai, and his wife, who was born in Birmingham to a Christian family, denied the charges against them, telling the court they did not act wilfully and believed Abiyah would recover from a flu-like condition.

Tai told police in interview that he had carried out an ‘eight-day ritual’ hoping that Abiyah would ‘come back’, but had eventually decided to conduct a burial in accordance with his culture on what he regarded as sacred ground.

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He told jurors he had adopted polygamy but had rejected being an omnivore as part of his quasi-religious ‘kingdom’ – but accepted that he had been ‘foolish’ in following his own legal doctrine.

Although he had studied immunology and how diseases affect genes before graduating from Queen Mary University of London, Tai claimed he was unaware of the risks of a strict unsupplemented vegan diet.

Now, would you call it negligence of outright wickedness?