The parents of a boy whose body was found buried in a garden in Birmingham have been found guilty of causing his death.

A jury found that Tai and Naiyahmi Yasharahyalah, 42 and 43, were responsible for the death of their three-year-old son Abiyah in 2020.

Abiyah was found buried in the garden of a property where the couple had lived in Clarence Road, Handsworth.

The Yasharahyalahs were evicted in 2022 and police found the boy’s body in December that year.

Both parents had denied neglect, causing or allowing the death of a child and perverting the course of justice.

The court had heard how Abiyah died following a respiratory infection, but this was not the full extent of his poor health.

He had been in a severely malnourished state and suffered with a list of other problems. The scale of his parents’ neglect only emerged after his body was exhumed.

During the trial, the prosecution told the jury Abiyah died between December 2019 and January 2020 and would have been about three years and nine months old.

Commending the jury for their work, the judge, Mr Justice Wall, said it had been “both a long and difficult case”.

The couple showed no visible or audible reaction to the verdicts.

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