‘A father and his partner have been found guilty of the killing of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.
The boy was starved, tortured and neglected by Thomas Hughes and Emma Tustin, eventually dying of a head injury in June 2020 while in the care of his stepmother.’
I cannot fathom how anyone can abuse small children, and continue to do so to the point of murdering them. Absolute pieces of shit
And the fact that kid knew his dad would kill him, he’d already lost his mum after she was jailed. That poor soul having to live with those two, knowing he was going to die. That’s no life for anyone to live, let alone a child.
THANK FUCK. These two sicken me to my stomach. The suffering that little boy experienced before he was murdered was some of the worst stuff I’ve read in years. Ordered to stand in the hall for 14 hours at a time, beaten if he doesn’t comply. Force fed 34g of salt. Starved and dehydrated. How anyone could do that to a child is beyond comprehension.
Now these two subhuman pieces of shit have gotten what they deserve, I hope there’s a separate investigation into the failings of Children’s Services in this case. They were made aware of the abuse, several times, by at least 2 different family members, and the school, months before Arthur was killed. They performed a home visit the day after they were sent a picture of a massive bruise taken by Arthur’s gran that she had found. They claimed that they did ask to check his back, and it magically wasn’t there, despite his gran having seen it and photographed it 26 hours earlier. This is Baby Peter levels of failure imo.
Hope the sentence matches the heinousness of the crime.
When I worked in paediatrics, the slightest unexplained mark in na unnatural place was looked at by at least 3 or 4 doctors before we’d be satisfied. This boy could even explain himself. I don’t understand how this boy was failed.
I don’t want people punished (other than the so-called guardians who I hope get some justice at the hands of other prison inmates), I want lessons learned, education, loopholes closed in the way we learned from Baby P.
With this conviction, I can’t but think how this series of events began with a little boy whose mother was convicted of killing someone, and has now ended with another mother convicted of murder. I hope that the rest of her children’s childhood is very different to Arthur’s. The level of cruelty and abuse he experienced is truly unfathomable.
No matter how many times I read this story day after day it’s impossible not to cry for that poor little boy.
Man I feel for the jury, wonder if they’d need help after this case.
I’ve been reading the updates on this throughout the trial and now that everything has been disclosed, I cannot believe that this has been allowed to happen. For those of us old enough to remember Victoria Climbie (and later Baby P) and all the changes within the system that it enacted as a result of her death it is absolutely staggering that something reported so many times to so many professionals has repeated. I’d be falling on my fucking sword if I’d been anywhere near this case making a decision on intervening and leaving the profession.
Horrible to read – poor little boy was crying ‘no one loves me’ on a recording… I don’t know how people can do this.
Solid result, for a pair of people who have absolutely nothing to give to the human race, the world, or the universe.
I just hope the clearly high culpability of his manslaughter charge is enough for a life sentence and serious min term.
If I had my way, they’d both be fucked off into whole of life terms because I don’t think the world ever needs to see these cunts again.
There were two other young children living in that household, I do hope they find a family they can call home. What a sad life for Arthur, horrific.
‘Following the verdicts the jury asked if they could hold a minute’s silence for Arthur, which they were allowed to do.’
Great humans, all round. Choked me right up.
Usually I can take distressing things pretty well but this was too much. I get why they don’t release some things to the public now I got quite depressed after listening to this and for a couple days after, wish I never listened to it. How can you hear a child screaming for help and not do anything. These people are animals not human.
No available punishment is bad enough for these fucking vermin.
I followed this case and it brought tears to my eyes. I’d look at my own kids (just slightly younger) and my heart would break for this poor boy. The utter hopelessness he must have felt is beyond my comprehension.
How any person can treat a child like this is unimaginable. Someone momentary lashing out when frustrated would be awful but within the realms of my understanding. But this? Just no.
>It emerged at trial that Arthur had been seen by social workers just two months before his death, after concerns were raised by his paternal grandmother Joanne Hughes, but they concluded there were “no safeguarding concerns”.
‘Social services in total incompetence
shocker’
I’m not usually one for death penalty, but what a waste of fucking money keepings these sosiopathic pieces of filth in prison. They will never ever be of any use to anyone, unless they get a brain transplant. Some people don’t deserve the air they breathe.
Oh I want 5 minutes with these utter fucking monsters. I remember this case, and that young man crying that no one loves him and no one will feed him broke me.
These pieces of shit should never see the light of day again. I hope they suffer daily in prison.
‘In one audio clip, Arthur could be heard crying “no-one loves me,” repeating the phrase four times, while in another he cries “no-one’s gonna feed me” seven times.’
Two evil people made a child believe that about his life in his last days.
There’s no punishment I can think that would fit this crime….
>After his death, Arthur was found to have 130 injuries all over his body
Just…
I can’t imagine the pain and agony he went through.
Poor little boy. RIP
There isn’t any sentence harsh enough that the British system can give this pair. I feel so bad for little Arthur, all the missed opportunities to save him. Rip
If they were in the US they’d get the death penalty.
She’s moaning that she keeps getting attacked by inmates, they are threatening her and violent towards her. Also she is not being given her medication and her mental health is spiralling.
Poetic really, long may it continue.
As child killers, they’re both gonna have a fantastic time when they hit the pen…
Wonder which one will string up first?
They’re going to get absolutely destroyed in prison.
For a six year old to end up in the headspace of “nobody loves me, nobody is going to feed me”… that’s just the saddest thing on this earth. Coming to terms with that at such a young age, I can’t even imagine it. That poor lad.
Shit thing is they’ll probably be in protective custody so they’ll never get what’s coming to them.
That kid was doomed from the start
Mother was a murderer and dad and step mom evil. One of the saddest things I’ve ever heard is him crying to himself.
On BBC news last night, they played a soundbite of the poor lad crying and saying “no one is going to feed me” — it made me tear-up instantly, and this is no doubt one of the less distressing audio clips the jury heard in court.
We all know what the findings of the review will be, we could all write the SCR now if we wanted to. Missed chances, lack of joined up working, poor communication, failure to recognise risk, individual workers too easily misled or intimidated by abusers, poor support and supervision of workers, high caseloads, same as it always says, over and over. Lockdown will be a feature of this one too. During lockdown proper I had so many fights about this, that safeguarding work needed to be exempt from restrictions, that it was not reasonable or proportionate to restrict it as it was, that the risks of children like Arthur being significantly harmed were higher than the risks of covid. I am a social worker, I work in MH safeguarding, many friends are CP social workers and they were in meltdown during lockdown. They knew that with schools and nurseries and children’s centres shut and home visits paused and so on that kids were going to suffer and die. Lockdown was necessary but it should not have meant children in need of protection were denied it and if we ever have another one it should mean MORE contact with and surveillance by social services, not less.
Social services needs money. A lot of fucking money. And huge, huge changes. More staff are needed, better support is needed, a move away from endless evidencing and paperwork (some of course is necessary but not to the extent we have now) is needed. Shitty in at the deep end Step Up style training needs to be dropped, you do not get the skills and experience you need to do this work effectively with that sort of shortened scheme. People should have to have life experience and real experience of unqualified work in relevant areas before they can access social work degree courses. Degree courses need to teach people the ‘soft’ skills that make the difference between formulaic tick box work and genuine, meaningful social work. The regulator is a pile of shite, everything about how social services functions is a pile of fucking shite. I could write about this for thousands of word and I expect you’ve heard it all before. It is shite.
Kids are suffering like Arthur did, right now. I guarantee it. As I type this, it is happening. It will happen tomorrow and the next day and the next and in a few months we will all be reading, appalled and shocked and upset, about another child abused until they died. And we will all have the same fucking conversations all over again and again nothing will change because we refuse to fund and resource and completely redesign how we manage social services. People will have a totally warranted rant about the failings of individual workers and call for their heads and maybe get them, and then we will carry on with this awful system that is not fit for purpose and results in children being abused to terrible deaths.
In this case it sounds as if the failings were at every bloody level and the chances to save him were many abs missed and I hope that individual workers *do* face consequences. I am angry with them too. Even angrier that we know the system more or less guarantees failures like these though.
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‘A father and his partner have been found guilty of the killing of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.
The boy was starved, tortured and neglected by Thomas Hughes and Emma Tustin, eventually dying of a head injury in June 2020 while in the care of his stepmother.’
I cannot fathom how anyone can abuse small children, and continue to do so to the point of murdering them. Absolute pieces of shit
And the fact that kid knew his dad would kill him, he’d already lost his mum after she was jailed. That poor soul having to live with those two, knowing he was going to die. That’s no life for anyone to live, let alone a child.
THANK FUCK. These two sicken me to my stomach. The suffering that little boy experienced before he was murdered was some of the worst stuff I’ve read in years. Ordered to stand in the hall for 14 hours at a time, beaten if he doesn’t comply. Force fed 34g of salt. Starved and dehydrated. How anyone could do that to a child is beyond comprehension.
Now these two subhuman pieces of shit have gotten what they deserve, I hope there’s a separate investigation into the failings of Children’s Services in this case. They were made aware of the abuse, several times, by at least 2 different family members, and the school, months before Arthur was killed. They performed a home visit the day after they were sent a picture of a massive bruise taken by Arthur’s gran that she had found. They claimed that they did ask to check his back, and it magically wasn’t there, despite his gran having seen it and photographed it 26 hours earlier. This is Baby Peter levels of failure imo.
Hope the sentence matches the heinousness of the crime.
When I worked in paediatrics, the slightest unexplained mark in na unnatural place was looked at by at least 3 or 4 doctors before we’d be satisfied. This boy could even explain himself. I don’t understand how this boy was failed.
I don’t want people punished (other than the so-called guardians who I hope get some justice at the hands of other prison inmates), I want lessons learned, education, loopholes closed in the way we learned from Baby P.
With this conviction, I can’t but think how this series of events began with a little boy whose mother was convicted of killing someone, and has now ended with another mother convicted of murder. I hope that the rest of her children’s childhood is very different to Arthur’s. The level of cruelty and abuse he experienced is truly unfathomable.
No matter how many times I read this story day after day it’s impossible not to cry for that poor little boy.
Man I feel for the jury, wonder if they’d need help after this case.
I’ve been reading the updates on this throughout the trial and now that everything has been disclosed, I cannot believe that this has been allowed to happen. For those of us old enough to remember Victoria Climbie (and later Baby P) and all the changes within the system that it enacted as a result of her death it is absolutely staggering that something reported so many times to so many professionals has repeated. I’d be falling on my fucking sword if I’d been anywhere near this case making a decision on intervening and leaving the profession.
Horrible to read – poor little boy was crying ‘no one loves me’ on a recording… I don’t know how people can do this.
Solid result, for a pair of people who have absolutely nothing to give to the human race, the world, or the universe.
I just hope the clearly high culpability of his manslaughter charge is enough for a life sentence and serious min term.
If I had my way, they’d both be fucked off into whole of life terms because I don’t think the world ever needs to see these cunts again.
There were two other young children living in that household, I do hope they find a family they can call home. What a sad life for Arthur, horrific.
‘Following the verdicts the jury asked if they could hold a minute’s silence for Arthur, which they were allowed to do.’
Great humans, all round. Choked me right up.
Usually I can take distressing things pretty well but this was too much. I get why they don’t release some things to the public now I got quite depressed after listening to this and for a couple days after, wish I never listened to it. How can you hear a child screaming for help and not do anything. These people are animals not human.
No available punishment is bad enough for these fucking vermin.
I followed this case and it brought tears to my eyes. I’d look at my own kids (just slightly younger) and my heart would break for this poor boy. The utter hopelessness he must have felt is beyond my comprehension.
How any person can treat a child like this is unimaginable. Someone momentary lashing out when frustrated would be awful but within the realms of my understanding. But this? Just no.
>It emerged at trial that Arthur had been seen by social workers just two months before his death, after concerns were raised by his paternal grandmother Joanne Hughes, but they concluded there were “no safeguarding concerns”.
‘Social services in total incompetence
shocker’
I’m not usually one for death penalty, but what a waste of fucking money keepings these sosiopathic pieces of filth in prison. They will never ever be of any use to anyone, unless they get a brain transplant. Some people don’t deserve the air they breathe.
Oh I want 5 minutes with these utter fucking monsters. I remember this case, and that young man crying that no one loves him and no one will feed him broke me.
These pieces of shit should never see the light of day again. I hope they suffer daily in prison.
‘In one audio clip, Arthur could be heard crying “no-one loves me,” repeating the phrase four times, while in another he cries “no-one’s gonna feed me” seven times.’
Two evil people made a child believe that about his life in his last days.
There’s no punishment I can think that would fit this crime….
>After his death, Arthur was found to have 130 injuries all over his body
Just…
I can’t imagine the pain and agony he went through.
Poor little boy. RIP
There isn’t any sentence harsh enough that the British system can give this pair. I feel so bad for little Arthur, all the missed opportunities to save him. Rip
If they were in the US they’d get the death penalty.
She’s moaning that she keeps getting attacked by inmates, they are threatening her and violent towards her. Also she is not being given her medication and her mental health is spiralling.
Poetic really, long may it continue.
As child killers, they’re both gonna have a fantastic time when they hit the pen…
Wonder which one will string up first?
They’re going to get absolutely destroyed in prison.
For a six year old to end up in the headspace of “nobody loves me, nobody is going to feed me”… that’s just the saddest thing on this earth. Coming to terms with that at such a young age, I can’t even imagine it. That poor lad.
Shit thing is they’ll probably be in protective custody so they’ll never get what’s coming to them.
That kid was doomed from the start
Mother was a murderer and dad and step mom evil. One of the saddest things I’ve ever heard is him crying to himself.
On BBC news last night, they played a soundbite of the poor lad crying and saying “no one is going to feed me” — it made me tear-up instantly, and this is no doubt one of the less distressing audio clips the jury heard in court.
We all know what the findings of the review will be, we could all write the SCR now if we wanted to. Missed chances, lack of joined up working, poor communication, failure to recognise risk, individual workers too easily misled or intimidated by abusers, poor support and supervision of workers, high caseloads, same as it always says, over and over. Lockdown will be a feature of this one too. During lockdown proper I had so many fights about this, that safeguarding work needed to be exempt from restrictions, that it was not reasonable or proportionate to restrict it as it was, that the risks of children like Arthur being significantly harmed were higher than the risks of covid. I am a social worker, I work in MH safeguarding, many friends are CP social workers and they were in meltdown during lockdown. They knew that with schools and nurseries and children’s centres shut and home visits paused and so on that kids were going to suffer and die. Lockdown was necessary but it should not have meant children in need of protection were denied it and if we ever have another one it should mean MORE contact with and surveillance by social services, not less.
Social services needs money. A lot of fucking money. And huge, huge changes. More staff are needed, better support is needed, a move away from endless evidencing and paperwork (some of course is necessary but not to the extent we have now) is needed. Shitty in at the deep end Step Up style training needs to be dropped, you do not get the skills and experience you need to do this work effectively with that sort of shortened scheme. People should have to have life experience and real experience of unqualified work in relevant areas before they can access social work degree courses. Degree courses need to teach people the ‘soft’ skills that make the difference between formulaic tick box work and genuine, meaningful social work. The regulator is a pile of shite, everything about how social services functions is a pile of fucking shite. I could write about this for thousands of word and I expect you’ve heard it all before. It is shite.
Kids are suffering like Arthur did, right now. I guarantee it. As I type this, it is happening. It will happen tomorrow and the next day and the next and in a few months we will all be reading, appalled and shocked and upset, about another child abused until they died. And we will all have the same fucking conversations all over again and again nothing will change because we refuse to fund and resource and completely redesign how we manage social services. People will have a totally warranted rant about the failings of individual workers and call for their heads and maybe get them, and then we will carry on with this awful system that is not fit for purpose and results in children being abused to terrible deaths.
In this case it sounds as if the failings were at every bloody level and the chances to save him were many abs missed and I hope that individual workers *do* face consequences. I am angry with them too. Even angrier that we know the system more or less guarantees failures like these though.