His mummified corpse was discovered with a teddy in a travel cot in his
mother's bedroom in a house filled with rotting rubbish and faeces.
Prosecutors told a jury trying Hutton for manslaughter that the
43-year-old did nothing to alert the emergency services about her son's
plight and even ordered pizza within hours of his death.Paul Greaney QC, prosecuting, told Bradford Crown Court: "She made no call for assistance - for a doctor or an ambulance.
"What did she do? Within hours she was ordering a pizza. So, no call for assistance but a call, or even calls, for pizza.
“Moreover, she thereafter continued to claim child benefit in respect of her dead son."
The prosecutor told the jury Hamzah was four and half years old when he died but was wearing baby clothes that fitted him and his development was "comparable to a child aged between one year and 18 months".
Mr Greaney said Hamzah's body was found in September 2011 after police community support officer Jodie Worsley went to the house on a number of occasions due to concerns raised by neighbours.
The court heard how there was terrible smell coming from the terraced house and, when Hutton eventually opened the door, there were flies buzzing around her.
Police went into the property and "what they discovered disturbed even hardened officers," Mr Greaney said.
Mr Greaney said the prosecution case was that Hutton was guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence on two grounds - that she failed to feed him adequately and failed to seek medical assistance for him.
Hutton, who sat in the dock with a security guard, denies the single charge.
Wearing a black top, black cardigan and a black skirt, she wiped tears at some points during Wednesday’s proceedings.
The trial continues.
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