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Mum 'thought daughter was dead but she woke up so was burnt to finish job', court told

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daughter with an overdose when she dragged the teen to a burn pile when she suddenly woke up screaming, a court has heard. Rebecca Ruud then allegedly smacked her autistic daughter with a rake to knock her out, before killing her with the fire.

The monster mum's trial for the July 2017 disappearance and death of her daughter, Savannah Leckie, began on Monday.READ MORE: Millionaire Brit 'Mr Bling' shot dead by jilted model lover waiting in his bedWeeks after Savannah was reported missing on the day that Ruud married her boyfriend, Robert Peat Jr - who was also charged - her charred remains were found.It is believed that Ruud burned the body in an attempt to cover the crime up after she "crushed up pills and put them in a drink - likely KoolAid or something similar," prosecutor Anthony Brown said "The defendant thought Savannah was dead and brought her body to the burn pile to dispose of the evidence," Brown said."She wasn't dead.

She woke up screaming.“And during this screaming, the defendant hit her with a rake or other type of long-handled implement until she could scream no more."All that was left of Savannah was a bag of bones," Brown said.To get more stories from Daily Star delivered straight to your inbox sign up to one of our free newsletters here.The prosecutor cited Ruud's fellow inmates, who he said made a confession to her while locked up.

Ruud's fellow inmates may have been lying, according to defense lawyer Yvette Renee Duvall. "Their stories don't align with the other witnesses who were actually there," she said Monday."They also don't align with the evidence," she said.

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