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From the start it was riddled with distrust and insecurity from both sides.”Ġ0:26 Woman who punched 16-month-old to death called herself 'the number one psycho' – videoĪ week before Star was killed, Brockhill took the child to her workplace, a recycling plant in Doncaster, overnight so that Smith could go out drinking.
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She played on her tough image, posting videos online threatening to hurt anyone who flirted with Smith.īrockhill’s barrister, Katherine Goddard QC, told the jury: “To say the relationship between Savannah Brockhill and Frankie Smith was toxic is about the biggest understatement anyone could make. She told the court she came from an English Gypsy family and left school when she was 10. The court heard Smith was of extremely low intelligence, and “abnormally compliant” when told to do something by an authority figure.īrockhill, eight years Smith’s senior, bossed her around, urging her to implement a strict eating and sleeping routine. Halfway through the seven-week trial, Smith pleaded guilty to eight instances of child cruelty against Star between April to September 2020. Brockhill admitted she found them funny, comparing them to clips on You’ve Been Framed. The women could be heard laughing as they filmed Star falling off a chair or down the stairs. Others were caught on CCTV.īrockhill sometimes edited the footage by adding dramatic music and captions. Smith and Brockhill also filmed many acts of cruelty against Star, sending them to friends for their own amusement. Arthur died in June 2020 after being deprived of food, force-fed salt and assaulted, in abuse that was filmed and photographed by his stepmother and father.įrankie Smith (left) and Savannah Brockhill. The convictions came 11 days after another couple were convicted in a separate case of killing six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes after a “campaign of appalling cruelty” during lockdown. Seventeen-month old Peter Connolly, known in the courts as Baby P, died in 2008 after suffering months of abuse, despite being on the child protection register. “We were just a quiet, lovely family and she ascended from the bowels of hell and just completely devastated and wrecked our family,” he said.įawcett, a postal worker from Baildon, Bradford, said that when his partner, Anita Smith, made her complaint, she told social services: “Look, we don’t want another Baby P on our hands here, do we?.” But he said the council closed the case after concluding the referral was “malicious”. He described Brockhill as “pure evil” and accused her of having “brainwashed” Smith. “It’s disgusting because there were five referrals.
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Outside court on Tuesday, David Fawcett – the partner of Smith’s grandmother, who called social services in May after hearing that Brockhill had been using a wrestling move called a “slam-choke” on Star – said he was disgusted that the authorities did not step in. The Department for Education said it would “not hesitate” to remove children’s services control from Bradford council “if necessary”. “We offered support and assistance to Star’s family for what we believed their needs to be, at that given time, but we all deeply regret that not all the warning signs were seen that could have led to firmer statutory enforcement action.”Ī local child safeguarding practice review into the case is under way and will be published in January. This was a child’s life cut cruelly short,” it said in a statement. “We want to say first and foremost that we’re sorry for the death of Star.
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Following the unanimous verdicts at Bradford crown court on Tuesday, the Bradford Partnership, which has responsibility for children’s safeguarding, apologised for missing warning signs.