A mother has been jailed for causing her baby daughter’s death while keeping her in “squalid” conditions, according to the Metropolitan Police. Eleven-month-old Nafahat died of a chest infection after
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A woman murdered a 12-month-old boy she was hoping to adopt as her frustration with him turned to hostility, a court has heard. Leiland-James Corkill was placed with Laura Castle,
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A drug addict whose seven-year-old son died alone from a needless asthma attack after she used his inhalers to smoke crack cocaine has been jailed for 20 years. Laura Heath
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A severely neglected and chronically underweight 17-month-old child was taken into care only after a contractor reported seeing the youngster in a cot “with their arms taped up” in a
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There were “clear missed opportunities” by social workers ahead of the death of a severely asthmatic boy whose mother has been convicted of fatal neglect, according to Birmingham’s child protection
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A nurse warned a vulnerable severely asthmatic seven-year-old boy “could die at the weekend” two days before the youngster’s death, alone and “gasping for air”, after being fatally neglected by
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A social services investigation is under way following the death of five-year-old Logan Mwangi and the convictions of his mother, stepfather and a teenager for his murder. Just a month
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The mother and stepfather of a five-year-old boy whose battered body was found dumped in a river have been found guilty of his murder. John Cole, 40, and Angharad Williamson,
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New immigration laws will have a “massively detrimental” impact on exploited children, who will be at greater risk of being unidentified, unprotected and penalised, charities have warned. The Government has
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The chief constable of England’s third biggest police force said it was “borderline incompetent” in the way it dealt with grooming gangs in the past. Stephen Watson, the top officer
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