{"id":20556,"date":"2021-12-04T05:25:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T10:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=20556"},"modified":"2021-12-04T10:00:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T15:00:55","slug":"arthur-labinjo-hughes-emma-tustin-and-thomas-hughes-jailed-over-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/12\/04\/arthur-labinjo-hughes-emma-tustin-and-thomas-hughes-jailed-over-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes jailed over killing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A man has been jailed for 21 years and his partner for a minimum of 29 years over the torture and killing of his six-year-old son, Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Emma Tustin, 32, murdered the boy by causing a fatal head injury at her home in Solihull on 16 June last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She photographed him lying on the floor, sending the image to his father Thomas Hughes, 29.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hughes was convicted of the boy’s manslaughter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sentencing, Justice Mark Wall QC told Coventry Crown Court the case was “one of the most distressing and disturbing” he had ever dealt with.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He said neither defendant had shown any remorse and their behaviour had been “spiteful and sadistic”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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One of the most troubling aspects, he added, was that Tustin’s own two children “lived a perfectly happy life in that house” just yards from where Arthur was subjected to unthinkable abuse.<\/p>\n

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Earlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would leave “no stone unturned” to find out what went wrong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) is set to publish a report into West Midlands Police’s contact with the case in due course but said it “found no indication any individual behaved in a manner that justified disciplinary proceedings”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The trial heard Arthur had been poisoned with salt, subjected to regular beatings, denied food and drink and made to stand for hours alone in the hallway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jurors were told Tustin carried out a fatal assault by violently shaking the schoolboy and repeatedly banging his head on a hard surface, and while Hughes was not present then, he was culpable in the death as he “encouraged” violence against his son and dealt out beatings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tustin refused to enter the courtroom to hear the\u00a0judge’s sentencing remarks<\/a>\u00a0or victim impact statements from Arthur’s family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The judge told the pair “the cruel and inhuman treatment of Arthur was a deliberate decision by you to brush off his cries for help as naughtiness”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He said they had “dehumanised” the boy, adding: “The less human he seemed to be, the more freedom you had to abuse him.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Arthur was described as a cheeky boy, adored by his extended family<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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