Prosecutors said despite having her phone, she took 12 minutes to call 999, telling medics Arthur "fell and banged his head and while on the floor banged his head another five times". Hughes was seemingly unmoved by the sound of his boy crying over and over again. In one message she said 'f****** launch this lying little f***' and in another she warned she was 'going to chin this little c***'. We pay respect by giving voice to social justice, acknowledging our shared history and valuing the cultures of First Nations. Arthur spent 35 hours of the three-day period between 12 and 14 June in the hallway having been forced to go there by his father and step-mother. ", The court was told that in June last year, Mr Hughes told a neighbour: "If you hear anyone saying 'don't kill me', ignore it, I'm not hurting him.". Scheduling: (513) 612-1111 The monster even had the gall to claim the boy was making her life 'hell'. There was a consensus that it was 'inconceivable' Arthur could have caused them himself. Is climate change killing Australian wine? Tustin said at one point to Thomas that "I want you but I don't want him". [8], In early 2020, Thomas Hughes took his son to multiple medical appointments but the boy was not diagnosed with any mental health problems. He portrayed himself as dim-witted, lacking in confidence and completely submissive to Tustin's assertive control. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Tustin saw Arthur as an enemy and threat to her relationship with Hughes. In light of the revelations a juror asked if they were seriously expected to believe Hughes was not guilty of any child cruelty offence. She made multiple references to him 'winning'. The transcripts of Hughes' seven police interviews were a bombshell. They all agreed that the most likely mechanism that caused the injuries was a shaking-type motion with one or more impacts. significant evidence and developments in the trial. Arthur Labinjo-Hughes' head was banged repeatedly against a hard surface, Coventry Crown Court heard, Floral tributes were laid at the scene in 2020. One witness said the previously happy and healthy boy looked "as though he were broken" on the day of his death. Barely able to stand, he folded away his bedding in the living room where his father and new stepmother had been making him sleep on the floor, all the while monitored by CCTV set up to catch him "misbehaving". The secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure.
