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A woman filmed reacting furiously to discovering she was having a girl went on to kill her newborn baby. Nicole Blain, 30, was convicted of the murder of her 19-day-old daughter Thea Jane Wilson on Wednesday (April 29) following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

Just a few months before Blain "lost her temper" and left baby Thea with horror injuries more commonly seen in car crash victims, she kicked off at her own gender reveal party. Holding a pink knife in the clip, Blain appears to shout at her loved one holding a black balloon containing either blue or pink confetti, signifying which gender her baby will be, while attempting to stab it. Upon finally popping the balloon and seeing strands of pink confetti spray across the living room, Blain storms off, but not before she sticks her middle finger up to the camera.

The horrific attack took place on July 14, 2023, with experts concluding the 19-day-old girl had injuries consistent with being violently shaken and repeatedly hit off a hard floor, wall or furniture. Footage showing Blain's visible disdain at the gender reveal party was published months earlier, in February 2023.

Jurors heard how 19dayold Thea Jane Wilson suffered multiple skull fractures, catastrophic brain damage and rib and neck trauma after Blain "lost her temper" inside her Greenock flat, before attempting to pin the blame on a child in the home, the Daily Record reports.

Before her guilty verdict in court, Blain tried to cover up her daughter's death, claiming she had woken up from a nap to find her stricken on the floor. This lie was later changed to claim another child in the flat had "done" the damage to Thea.

However, Thea could have been fatally hurt by being dropped by this youngster, a pathologist ruled. The newborn was described as "perfect" during the trial, having been born on June 25, 2023.

Blain cried hysterically as she was led handcuffed to the cells. She will return to the dock next month. The court heard how, on the day of the killing, there had been a plan for Blain to take the child to her paternal grandmother, Laura Wilson's home in Ayrshire.

Instead, at around 2pm that afternoon, the gran's husband Alan took a call on her mobile from Blain.

"I could hear screaming. I had never heard anything like it," Mr Wilson, 59, told jurors. "It was piercing and extremely loud. I thought it was an older child doing it, but then I realised it was the baby who was screaming.

"She (Blain) did mumble 'I do not know what to do'. She did not sound right. I said 'hang up and phone an ambulance.'"

Mrs Wilson also spoke with the killer mum, recalling: "She said she had found Thea on the floor with no clothes on and had a bump on her head."

She rushed through to the hospital in Glasgow to be there for her beloved granddaughter, quizzing Blain on what had happened at the flat.

"She said that it was (another child also staying with her) who had done it," Mrs Wilson told the court. Blain added she had woken up and found Thea out of her crib and on the floor.

Thea tragically did not recover and it was concluded that the baby had suffered "significant non-accidental head trauma". As well as the skull fractures, Thea also had injuries to her ribs consistent with her chest being pressed.

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The baby's neck was also hurt, which could have been from the "forceful" movement back and forth of her head. Pathologist Leighanne Deboys told the jury that a combination of Thea being shaken and impact with a hard surface would account for these horrific injuries, described by another medic as similar to those suffered by a car crash victim.

Both in court and in texts to Thea's grandmother, shown in court, Blain insisted she loved Thea. In separate footage in June last year, Blain was filmed being hounded out of her then home in Renfrewshire after an irate mob descended on the property.

This incident came weeks after the full allegations of how she had harmed her daughter emerged. Officers were placed on duty to guard the home as two women, one believed to be Blain, were escorted into a van by three officers.

Sentencing was deferred on Blain, who had a minor previous assault conviction, for reports. After the verdict, Lord Scott told jurors that the trial was a "thankfully unusual case involving the murder of a baby".