There will be a national investigation into the murder of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.
It comes as deputy prime minister Dominic Raab told Sky News: “The most vulnerable in our society need to have the maximum protection.”
The boy, from Solihull, West Midlands, was poisoned, starved and beaten by step-mother Emma Tustin, 32, and his father Thomas Hughes, 29, in a prolonged campaign of “evil abuse”.
A review will look into how social services and local authorities liaise with the criminal justice system to learn the lessons from Arthur‘s death in June last year.
He was left with an unsurvivable brain injury while in the sole care of Tustin, with the boy’s body also covered in 130 bruises.
The wider investigation will run alongside a review of the jail sentences of Arthur’s step-mother and his father.
Tustin was sentenced to a minimum 29 years in prison for Arthur’s murder, while Hughes was jailed for 21 years for manslaughter after encouraging the killing of his son.
The national investigation will also go beyond an independent local safeguarding review that is already under way.
Speaking to Sky News about the case, Mr Raab, who is also justice secretary and is a father of two young boys, said he “can’t begin to imagine how anyone could be that cruel”.
“We’ve had those sentences for the two parents, the Attorney General has made clear she wants to have them reviewed where we have a mechanism for doing so,” he told the Trevor Phillips On Sunday show.
“There will be a local safeguarding review which will look at the local authority’s actions – whether any lessons could have been picked up earlier, whether any warning flags could have been put up earlier.
“And the prime minister has made clear, as well…
Source : skynews
