mother smothered her two-month-old baby to death in London hotel and dumped her body in a bin.

An Italian mother who smothered her two-month-old baby daughter and dumped her body in a bin - and it was never found - may spend the rest of her life in a psychiatric hospital. 

Federica Boscolo-Gnolo, 32, admitted smothering Farah with a pillow while she was hearing ‘threatening, male voices speaking in English’, telling her the baby shouldn't have to ‘suffer’.

She was arrested on 29 January last year after she reported the little girl missing from the Hotel Lilly in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.

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'Depressed': Federica Boscolo-Gnolo, 32, admitted smothering Farah with a pillow while she was hearing ‘threatening, male voices speaking in English’, telling her the baby shouldn't have to ‘suf

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Detained: The mother was arrested on 29 January last year after she reported the little girl missing from the Hotel Lilly in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham

It is believed she suffocated her the previous evening, having flown into the UK on January 25 - apparently to try and see an eye specialist.

It later emerged she had wrapped the child’s body in a suitcase and smuggled it out of the hotel, disposing of it in a bin in the Russell Square area in central London.

Despite extensive searches at the hotel, nearby parks and the local rubbish dump, Farah’s body was never found.

Three psychiatrists concluded that the stress of the pregnancy, being a single parent and her daughter’s eye condition triggered Boscolo-Gnolo’s actions.

Two recommended a restriction on her release under Section 41 of the Mental Health Act, meaning she can only be released by a judge because she may pose a risk to adults and any future children.

Detaining her in the Orchard Unit of St Bernard’s Hospital, the Recorder of London, Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC said: ‘Your plea was entered on the basis that an abnormality of mental functioning had substantially reduced your responsibility for the killing.

‘You put a pillow over her face and suffocated her, you disposed of her body in a bin and it has never been recovered.

‘You are 32 years old, you’ve never offended before, so how is it you came to end the life of a child you had given birth two only two months before?

‘Precious life has been lost and her father has also lost his daughter. You have received treatment and it has been possible to gain insight into your mental state.

‘It’s accepted that at the time of the offence you were in fact suffering from depression but with psychotic symptoms and also with an underlying personality disorder.’

‘You were quite simply overwhelmed by the prospect of how you thought she would suffer in her life, you concluded that you could save her a life of physical and emotional suffering by killing her.

‘I have no doubt you feel remorse and will continue to do so as insight increases.’

The baby, who was born on November 22 2014 in Chioggia, near Venice, had an eye condition that had left her with an abnormally small left eye ball.