AN ABERGAVENNY mother will find out today if her guilty plea of manslaughter for killing her 11-month-old daughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, has been accepted by the court.

Jade Ruck, aged 23, of St David's Road, Mardy, appeared last Friday before Nicholas Cooke QC, the Recorder at Cardiff Crown Court, where she denied murdering her daughter Harley Ruck on November 20 last year, but instead she entered a guilty plea for manslaughter.

Barrister, Peter Murphy QC told the court that the guilty plea had been entered on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

He added that she had been examined by four different doctors and that he had received three reports and presented these to the court, but he was still waiting for the conclusion of the fourth report.

However prosecutor James Wilson said that he could not accept or reject the plea on behalf of the crown, until the fourth report had been received by the court.

Baby Harley was found dead just four days before her first birthday and when news broke of the incident an array of cuddly toys and flowers were soon left outside the ground floor flat where the body of the little girl was found to have suffered multiple stab wounds, strangulation and suffocation.

The mother was admitted to the psychiatric unit in Bridgend for assessment and in April she was charged with murder.

In court Ruck was flanked by three workers from the Caswell Clinic - a medium secure mental health clinic near Bridgend.

The judge adjourned the case until, Thursday, July 28 at Cardiff Crown Court and remanded Ruck back to the clinic.