A woman convicted of murdering her partner’s 16-month-old toddler has been jailed for life in England. Savannah Brockhill, a 28-year-old bouncer and security guard who abused toddler Star Hobson for months before she died from “utterly catastrophic” and “unsurvivable” injures, was found guilty of murder on Tuesday and handed a life sentence on Wednesday with a minimum prison term of 25 years. Hobson’s mother, 20-year-old Frankie Smith, was cleared of murder, given an eight-year sentence for causing or allowing her daughter’s death. The killing of Hobson and details of how she was subjected to months of assaults and psychological harm have caused an outcry, especially as the trial came so soon after the case of murdered six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes by his father and stepmother. Hobson’s great-grandfather, David Fawcett, has led the questioning over why social services and police did not act despite five different family members and friends raising concerns with the …
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