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How much did lockdown help Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’ killers escape notice?
Analysis: review into murder of Solihull six-year-old will focus on how crimes against him were not picked up sooner
The terrible death of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, murdered by his stepmother Emma Tustin after weeks of abuse and torture, may be an outlier in terms of its sheer brutality but is unlikely to be the only case of its kind to emerge from the lockdown period.
Arthur was killed in June 2020, just weeks after his father, Thomas Hughes, (who was convicted of Arthur’s manslaughter) moved with him into Tustin’s home at the start of lockdown in March 2020. As the pandemic raged, the couple’s staggering cruelty appears to have gone largely unnoticed.
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