Mum and partner ‘savagely beat young daughter and played games while she died’

A mother and her partner allegedly beat her young daughter so badly her injuries resembled those of a serious car crash and then played video games as the toddler lay slowly dying, a court heard.

Abigail Leatherland, 26, and her boyfriend Tom Curd, 31, are facing murder, manslaughter and gross negligence charges in a UK court following the alleged incident at their Liskeard home in Cornwall, south-west England. The pair are accused of assaulting Eve Leatherland, who was almost two years old, so viciously that she was left with a fractured skull, broken ribs and a split liver, according to theThey then allegedly gave the toddler codeine – an opiate-based pain medicine that typically comes in the form of cough syrup – and put her in a cot, where she lay dying while the couple played video games nearby.

Prosecutor Sean Brunton told the Truro Crown Court today that by the time an ambulance was called and had arrived, rigor mortis had already begun to set into the young girl’s body."She suffered injuries described by medical experts as being the type of injuries most commonly associated with a road traffic crash.

Disgusting pair - prison is where they belong

No words.

Putrid...humans

Let me guess, mental illness again and then they’ll walk free?

How bloody horrible, a defenceless 2 years old, breaks my heart that there are evil people in this world

Madness!

One day there will be psychological examinations and iq tests required before any body can have a baby. It’s a sick world!

Bastards. Give me 5 mins with them !!

No justice in our 'civilised society' Heinous crimes like this, where we are well beyond reasonable doubt, towards no doubt whatsoever, should be tried express. With nothing less than immediate death penalty. Torturing a baby.

This is where the death penalty is needed!

Low on news you are now doing stories on the UK?

No punishment great enough for this. The world can be a depressing place

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