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Arthur’s grandfather Labingo Hughes said the couple behind his death “must never see the light of day again.”
Six-year-old Arthur from Solihull, West Midlands, was poisoned, starved and beaten by his father’s girlfriend Emma Tustin, 32, and father, Thomas Hughes, 29, in a protracted campaign of “vicious abuse”.
Tustin was sentenced to life imprisonment in Coventry Crown Court on Friday, to a minimum of 29 years, after being found guilty of murder.
Photo: Emma Tastin and Thomas Hughes jailed on Friday
Hughes was sentenced to 21 years in prison for manslaughter.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that the sentences will be reviewed, and Education Minister Nazim Al-Zahawi is scheduled to make a statement regarding the case later today.
0:15 Arthur is seen in a video talking about football
Arthur’s 61-year-old grandfather, Peter Halcro, from Dunkeld, Perthshire, said Tustin and Hughes should never be allowed out of prison.
He told The Sun: “They should never see the light of day again. No punishment could be enough for this couple.
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“I have never preferred the death penalty because I know that courts can make mistakes, but in my opinion they have lost their right to life.
“It will burden the taxpayers, but since we do not apply the death penalty, they should never leave prison as long as they live in such cruelty and brutality.”
Madeleine Halcro, Arthur’s grandmother, was among those who gathered outside his house in Solihull to remember him.
She was wearing a T-shirt with a picture of his face on it and she wiped her tears as the crowd launched balloons into the sky.
An independent national review will identify lessons to be learned from Arthur’s death, in June last year, for the benefit of other children elsewhere in England.
The government also commissioned an urgent examination of the welfare, health, police and probation services in Solihull for which Arthur was known, in what is effectively an upgrade of an existing local audit.
It turned out in court that social workers had seen the boy only two months before his death, but concluded that there were “no protection concerns”.
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