A British woman has admitted in court that she hid the bodies of her three stillborn babies in her wardrobe for up to 25 years.

Bernadette Quirk, 55, gave birth to four stillborn girls between 1985 and 1995, the BBC reported.

She wrapped three of them in rags and kept them in a small plastic bin in her wardrobe. She reportedly buried the fourth in a cemetery.

Quirk was arrested in 2009. Medical evidence proved she was the mother of the babies and that they had been stillborn.

She was charged with concealment of birth.