Couple’s appeal against sentence fails

The BBC reports that the mother and stepfather of an eight-year-old girl found hanged in her bedroom have failed in appeals against their sentences. 

The girl, who had severe learning difficulties, was found hanged from a cord tied to a window at her home in Moor Street on 12 September last year. Nottingham Crown Court was told her bedroom had faeces smeared all over the walls and floor, and that she had been forced to use her chest of drawers as a toilet.