Mother and boyfriend wheeled body of toddler around Ipswich after murder

Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell and Scott Jeff, 24, jailed after Isabella Jonas-Wheildon endured ‘callous’ campaign of abuse

It is thought that two-year-old Isabella Jonas-Wheildon had been dead for about three days when the girl’s mother, Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell, and her partner, Scott Jeff, were captured on CCTV wheeling the toddler’s body around Ipswich in a pushchair. Footage shows the pair pushing the child’s body to a service station, a pub and to shops to buy video game equipment in the days after her death.

Police believe that the child – described as “perfect in every way” by her family – died on the evening of 26 June 2023 after a campaign of abuse by Jeff, 24, who had only been in her life for 36 days. On Friday, Jeff was sentenced to 26 years in prison for Isabella’s murder. Her mother received a sentence of 10 years for allowing her daughter’s death.