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A stepmother has been jailed for life in Britain with a minimum term of 29 years for abusing, poisoning and murdering her six-year-old stepson.
Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was left with an unsurvivable brain injury while in the sole care of 32-year-old Emma Tustin.
She fatally assaulted him with severe force in the hallway of her home in Solihull, central England on June 16, 2020. Arthur died in hospital the following day.
Tustin was unanimously convicted of her stepson’s murder after an eight-week trial, with the boy’s father, Thomas Hughes, 29, found guilty of his manslaughter, after encouraging the killing.

He was jailed for 21 years during their sentencing hearing at Coventry Crown Court on Friday.
It emerged during the 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”.
In her victim impact statement, which she read in court ahead of the sentencing, Ms Hughes said Arthur was a “happy, contented, thriving” child who would “be alive today” had her son not met Tustin.
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The secondary schoolteacher added: “It is also clear that Arthur was failed by the very authorities that we, as a society, are led to believe are there to ensure the safety of everyone.”
As the hearing began, Mr Justice Mark Wall QC said Tustin had been brought to court for her sentencing but had “refused to come up” to the dock.
He started by saying the trial had been “without doubt one of the most distressing and disturbing cases I have had to deal with”.


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Boy was in care of Emma Tustin when she fatally attacked him; she was jailed for at least 29 years for abuse, poisoning and murder
Thomas Hughes was jailed for 21 years for manslaughter; his mother said her grandson Arthur was ‘failed by the authorities’



Boy was in care of Emma Tustin when she fatally attacked him; she was jailed for at least 29 years for abuse, poisoning and murder.


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