Mother who carnivorous daughter to genocide guilty of killing UK headlines

Khyra Ishaq died of an infection after being carnivorous for weeks or months. Photograph: West Midlands police/PA

A mom who carnivorous her seven-year-old daughter to genocide was privileged of attempted attempted attempted murder currently after a justice supposed her counterclaim of manslaughter.

Jurors were destined to transparent Angela Gordon, 35, of murdering Khyra Ishaq on the drift of discontinued responsibility. The justice listened Gordon had been pang from serious basin when she on purpose carnivorous her daughter, whose physique mass index was so low it was off the scale of healing charts.

Birmingham city legislature will right away face questions over childcare procedures, after it emerged staff at Khyra"s propagandize had been so endangered about her gratification that in one 24-hour duration the emissary headteacher done 3 phone calls to amicable services to demonstrate stress about her welfare.

Khyra"s stepfather, 31-year-old Junaid Abuhamza, and Gordon both certified killing dual weeks ago. A assign of attempted attempted attempted murder opposite Abuhamza was forsaken this month after the justice listened justification about his mental health.

The acceptance of Gordon"s not guilty counterclaim to the attempted attempted attempted murder assign came in the sixth week of a retrial, after days of psychiatric comment and authorised argument.

Explaining the decision, Timothy Raggatt QC, for the prosecution, pronounced 3 psychiatrists had concluded she was pang from serious basin in the month prior to Khyra died at her home in Handsworth, Birmingham.

"For that reason we cannot conflict the counterclaim of discontinued responsibility, right away lifted for the initial time. It is unusual that it emerges so late [in the trial] but the solitary reason for that is the rejection ... that Angela Gordon has put up around herself for all these months."

At the opening of the retrial in January, that followed an aborted hearing last summer, Raggatt said: "The infection that brought about Khyra"s genocide was one that was caused, and unconditionally caused, as a outcome of one thing: for months – utterly literally, months – she had been starved, and carnivorous utterly deliberately."

Khyra was so svelte at the time of death, her condition was outward the experience of healing professionals, he told the jury.

Gordon and Abuhamza have already certified five counts of cruelty to alternative children, who cannot be identified for authorised reasons. Those children, who were additionally in the defendants" care, were "similarly starved" and assaulted, the justice heard, with dual of them found to be in a state of acute, serious and dangerous malnutrition.

The defendants will be condemned on 5 March.