Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: 999 call made by stepmother lies about fatal collapse

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Arthur Labinjo–Hughes was poisoned, starved and beaten by his step-mother Emma Tustin, 32, who was jailed for life on Friday 3 December 2021. His father, Thomas Hughes, 29, was found guilty of manslaughter.

The six-year-old from Solihull, UK, was poisoned, starved and beaten by step-mother Emma Tustin, 32, and his father Thomas Hughes, 29, in a prolonged campaign of “evil abuse” which ended with the child’s death in June 2020, after being left in the care of Tustin. Hughes was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 21 years in prison.

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During the 2020 Covid-19 epidemic, lockdown has come to mean the practice of attempting to control transmission of the virus by means of restricting people’s movement and activities on a broad scale, usually on a national or state-wide basis.

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Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter.

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The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence.

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