The cruellest lie

Great-gran Gina leads crusade to give stillborn babies’ dignity

- SARA WALLIS

MORE than 50 years after her precious stillborn baby boy was taken away in a cardboard box, Gina Jacobs realised she had been told a terrible lie.

She had carried the grief of not knowing exactly where her baby Robert was, having been told he had been buried “with a nice lady”.

The truth of what really happened to Robert and hundreds of others, which Gina only discovered a couple of years ago, was horrendous.

The great-grandmother, 81, from Greasby, on the Wirral, Merseyside, said: “If you had a stillborn baby you just had to get on with it. Robert was whisked away. I never even saw him.

“He was put in a box and we were told he'd be buried with someone being buried that day or the next.