David Ward MP was on BBC Look North on Thursday 3rd October about the Amanda Hutton case - a mother living in Bradford has been jailed for 15 years for starving son, four, to death at their Bradford home.
THE POLICE & SOCIAL SERVICES ARE GUILTY - AS USUAL! THE GUILTY ONES AMONG THEM SHOULD HAVE BEEN PROSECUTED AND CONVICTED, AND NOT THE POOR MOTHER WHO DEFINITELY HAD A PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEM! BAFS
44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Amanda Hutton* guilty of manslaughter of four-year-old ‘mummified’ son Hamzah Khan
Thursday 3 Oct 2013 4:44 pm
Hamza Khan had been dead for two years when his body was discovered (Picture: Andrew McCaren/Ross Parry) Amanda Hutton has been found guilty of the manslaughter of her four-year-old son Hamzah Khan, whose mummified body was found in a cot in her bedroom.
The 43-year-old was convicted after a two-week trial, with Bradford crown court hearing the child’s decomposed and insect-infested body had been in the cot for almost two years.
His remains were found by a police officer during a search of her home in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in September, 2011.
Jurors, who deliberated for five hours, had heard Hamzah, who died on December 15, 2009, had most probably died from malnutrition due to neglect from his mother as she concentrated on her alcohol addiction.
The jury foreman said Hutton had been convicted on the basis she was grossly negligent by not providing adequate nourishment.
The court heard how Hamzah’s body was found in terrible squalor in the house in the Heaton area of the city where five other school-aged children were living.
Hutton denied manslaughter, claiming she struggled to get her son to eat and he died suddenly.
She told the court she thought Hamzah was going through a phase, and said she only kept claiming child benefit after he died so his body would not be discovered and her other children potentially taken away from her.
The jury of eight men and four women heard how Hutton was known to police due to her volatile relationship with Aftab Khan, the father of all eight of her children.
Amanda Hutton will be sentenced tomorrow (Picture: PA) They split in 2008 and she was granted a non-molestation order to keep him away.
At this point most of their children moved out of his house, and they later moved into the house in Heaton.
It is not known what happened in the nine months between the family moving into the new house and Hamzah dying.
Malcolm Taylor, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said this was a ‘truly tragic case’.
‘It is heart-breaking to contemplate the suffering Hamzah must have endured,’ he said.
‘This horrific crime was compounded by the failure of either Amanda Hutton or Tariq Khan to arrange the burial of Hamzah’s body.’
He added: ‘Our thoughts remain with the rest of Hamzah’s family in the hope that they can now start to rebuild their lives.’
Hutton was remanded in custody to be sentenced tomorrow by Judge Roger Thomas QC.
She will also be sentenced for one count of preventing the burial of a corpse, a charge her eldest son Tariq, 24, admitted as well.
* If she is Hutton, how come her children are Khan?
WHERE WAS BRITISH CIVILISED SOCIETY?
WHERE WERE THE SOCIAL SERVICES AND THOSE WHO PAID FOR HER VODKA?
SHIT LAWS AND SHIT JUSTICE!
'Vile smell of filth' from house alerted police support officer to mummified body of four-year-old boy
Hamzah Khan's mummified body was found in his cot in September 2011.
Four-year-old boy died of starvation two years earlier
Body found by police after community support officer noticed a 'vile smell of filth' wafting from the letter box of the boy's home in Bradford
Mother Amanda Hutton denies manslaughter at Bradford Crown Court
Hutton's neighbour said she was often drunk and tearful, and would frequently speak of her abusive relationship with Hamzah's father
Father Aftab Khan denied claims he was a 'wife batterer' and added that he contacted social services once about his son, but was ignored
By James Rush and Lizzie Edmonds PUBLISHED: 18:28, 24 September 2013 | UPDATED: 20:00, 24 September 2013
In court: Amanda Hutton denies the manslaughter of her four-year-old son Hamzah Khan
The mummified body of a four-year-old boy was found in his mother’s bedroom after a police community support officer (PCSO) noticed the 'vile smell of filth' coming from the house, a court has been told. Hamzah Khan's mummified body was discovered in a cot in his mother Amanda Hutton's Bradford home in September 2011. The little boy died on 14 December 2009. PCSO Jodie Dunsmore told a jury today she knew 'something was definitely not right' at Hutton’s house when he visited in September 2011. Mrs Dunsmore, now a police officer, said she was only on her second day as a full PCSO when she began investigating a neighbour’s complaint about the house. The officer told the jury at Bradford Crown Court how she continually returned to the house over a number of days but got no reply. Pc Dunsmore said she became even more suspicious when she noticed large quantities of flies on the window ledge and a terrible smell coming through the letter box. She said that after at least five visits, she and a colleague threatened to kick in the door, despite having no such legal power to as PCSOs. The officer said that at that point Hutton opened the door and looked 'deadful'. She said: 'Her hair was all matted and she was looking very unkempt. She had a woollen jumper on and it appeared flies were coming off her jumper.' 'She looked like she was going to throw up. She had a look of fear on her face.” The officer said Hutton would not let her in. She continued: 'There was a vile smell of filth radiating from the door. I’d not even got to the end of the path before I’d rung social services. Something was definitely not right.' The jury was then told how Hamzah Khan was found in a cot in Amanda Hutton’s bedroom later that day when police officers arrived. He had been dead for almost two years. Prosecutors told the court that Hamzah died because he was starved to death
The court has heard Hamzah Khan's mummified body was discovered in a cot in Hutton's Bradford home in September 2011
Hutton, who told police he died of natural causes, denies manslaughter. A retired police domestic violence officer who had frequent contact with Hutton because she claims she was abused by her long-term partner - Hamzah’s father, Aftab Khan - also spoke in court today. Virginia Whittaker said Hutton received the highest level response from the multi-agency domestic violence team, including attempts to rehouse her. But Ms Whittaker said Hutton was reluctant to engage with health visitors because 'she lost faith in the health service after her mum died'. The former officer said her unit helped with fitting panic alarms and anti-arson letterboxes to Hutton’s house.
Maria Hodgson - a friend of Hutton’s family who knew her for more than 20 years - said the defendant changed after her mother died at the end of 2005. Mrs Hodgson was asked about a phone call lasting more than 30 minutes between her and Hutton on December 14 2009. Paul Greaney QC, prosecuting, asked Mrs Hodgson whether the defendant mentioned anything about Hamzah being ill during that conversation. Mrs Hodgson said she did not.
Aftab Khan, pictured, told Bradford Crown Court how he confronted Hutton about how she was looking after Hamzah Khan
Hutton's neighbour said the woman was often drunk and tearful. Christine Latz said she lived next door to Amanda Hutton and got to know her after she moved into her street in Bradford, in March 2009. She said the defendant talked to her about the abusive relationship she had moved away from. Asked whether there was any 'common feature' she noticed about Hutton, Mrs Latz said: 'She just smelt of alcohol. She appeared to be drunk quite often, tearful. 'She told me she’d come out of an abusive relationship to make a fresh start down here.' Hamzah Khan's father Aftab Khan was also in court today. He told the court how he confronted Hutton about how she was looking after his son. But he said she told him to mind his own business and banned him from the house less than a year before the little boy died.
Mr Khan told the court how he had separated from Hutton after he was charged with assaulting her. He said he was initially stopped from visiting Hutton due to a court order, but did start to go and see his son when they moved. Mr Khan told the jury his former partner was not looking after Hamzah properly. 'I said "look at the state of him - you're not looking after him" and she told me to get out,' he told the jury. The mechanic and taxi driver told the court that it was his concerns about his son that had led to the arguments resulting in his arrest in 2008 and eventual conviction for battery. He said: 'She wasn't bathing him. She wasn't changing him.' Mr Khan said he would only see Hutton feeding Hamzah milk. He said his former partner drank cider and vodka heavily, especially after the death of her mother. 'She'd be absolutely out of it,' he said. Hutton today sat in the dock dressed in black, watching Mr Khan give his evidence. Mr Khan told the jury he contacted social services once about the condition of Hamzah but said he was ignored. A senior police officer told the court there was no record he ever made the call. Yesterday, Paul Greaney QC, prosecuting, asked Khan whether he did contact social services. He said: 'I remember ringing social services up. They said it was a private matter. 'Social services are never bothered about cases like this.'
Claims: The jury heard how Khan, left, was charged with assaulting Hutton, right, in 2008
Pressed by Mr Greaney, he said: 'I clearly remember. There's no record of it. They weren't bothered, they weren't interested. I'd given up at that time.' Mr Greaney QC also asked Mr Khan about urging police to 'go and check' on Hamzah. 'Yes, so they could see the neglect for themselves,' he answered. Mr Greaney asked Mr Khan about a text message he sent to Hutton which read: 'Don't worry it's not me who's going to land you in the s***, you're going to do that yourself. You've turned into the biggest liar, stop drinking.' The text also asked what Hamzah had 'had' and added: 'Think about what you're doing to everybody.' Mr Greaney asked him: 'What do you mean by "had"?' Mr Khan answered: 'I meant what food, had he been fed properly?' Mr Khan rejected claims in court that he was a 'wife batterer'. Stephen Meadowcroft QC, defending, asked him: 'You were a wife batterer and she was a battered wife, cowed by your violence.' Mr Khan said: 'If I was a wife batterer why am I not standing next to her (Hutton)?' Mr Meadowcroft replied: 'Perhaps you ought to be.' The defence barrister put it to Mr Khan that he had been violent towards his client throughout their 20-year relationship, but he denied this. 'I've come here to answer questions about my child,' he said.
On going: The case continues at Bradford Crown Court, pictured
'Everyone knows what happened. You've got damning evidence against Miss Hutton but you're still trying to point the finger at me. I'm not having it.' Mr Meadowcroft told him: 'You were the father of the family. You were there. Had you actually thought that (Hamzah's neglect)? What did you do about it?' Mr Khan told the court: 'The police wouldn't believe me. No one would believe me.
'I know I made one phone call. If the police weren't going to believe me, who else is going to believe me? I gave up. 'The system failed my son. Did the school check up? Did social services check up? I lost my total confidence in the system.' Mr Khan said he helped Hutton before the court case, giving her money to buy clothes for the trial. 'I've helped her a lot. If I was a violent man, I wouldn't have helped.' Pc Maria Furness, of West Yorkshire Police, told the jury she attended Hutton's house to perform a welfare check but found Hamzah to be 'fed well, clean, healthy looking and there was an appropriate adult in the address'. Pc Furness said she was at the house for about 30 to 45 minutes when she made the visit about eight months before Hamzah's death. The case continues.
'When it all comes out I will come back and say I told you so': What father of four-year-old boy who was found mummified in his cot told police before his son's tragic death
Tragic Hamzah Khan's father, Aftab, warned boy was 'undernourished'
A year before his death he begged police to get doctors to check him
Accused mother Amanda Hutton of being 'bitter and twisted' and a drunk
Hamzah's brother Qaiser, 22, said the child 'appeared neglected'
Boy 'was left so hungry he ate contents of his own nappy'
Hutton is on trial and denies the manslaughter of Hamzah
Hamzah Khan's father, Aftab, told police a year before the toddler's death that his son was being neglected. Tapes of the conversation were played at the manslaughter trial of the boy's mother, Amanda Hutton
The devastated father of the four-year-old boy allegedly starved to death by his mother had begged police to check on the child before his death, a court has heard. Tapes were played at the manslaughter trial of tragic Hamazah Khan's mother, Amanda Hutton, of the conversation between Aftab Khan and police in 2008, following his arrest for an assault on Hutton. During the conversation, he repeatedly told officers of his concern for his son and issued a chilling warning to them when he said: 'When it all comes out I will come back and say I told you so... you guys aren't listening.' Hamzah was found dead in his cot in September 2011 and had been there for 21 months. On the tape, he also accused Hutton of being 'bitter and twisted' and an alcoholic. 'Get a doctor to check the kid (Hamzah). I want you to check Hamzah, get a doctor to check him and check how undernourished he is and how neglected he is. 'There's something wrong with that kid.' Asked if he had taken his son to the doctor, Aftab, who said he had been with Hutton 'on and off for 22 years' and who later admitted the assault on her in court, said: 'She will not let me. I've told her time and time again, there's something wrong with him, take him to the doctors. 'I changed his nappy when she'd left him for about a day and a half because of the drink problem. I can't do anything. She's overpowering. Go and live with her and you'll see the big bad story. 'It all boils down to she's an alcoholic she won't listen to anybody. I'll report her to the social services. The authorities can't be bothered. I will get the social services involved, you aren't listening. 'So if anything else happens afterwards you guys know about it. 'This is the problem, authorities, you don't believe the right people. She's a bitter and twisted woman and there's something seriously wrong with her.
'She don't brush her teeth, she don't clean herself, she don't look after herself. She's an alcoholic.'
The brother of Hamzah Khan (pictured) has told a jury how he saw the child sleeping in a buggy that stank of urine
He also confirmed police had been called to the house on eight separate occasions in the two-and-a-half years up to 2008. Detective Inspector Ian Lawrie told the court officers visited the home in Bradford, West Yorks., after the interview. The court is due to hear evidence from officers in relation to that visit.
On trial: Amanda Hutton faces manslaughter charges after her son Hamzah Khan's decomposed body was found at home 21 months after his death
Bradford Crown Court also heard evidence from Hamzah's brother, Qaiser Khan, 22, who said his sibling had 'appeared neglected', and had been sleeping in a cot which 'stank of urine'. He also claimed he had witnessed the child eating the contents of his nappy. Mr Khan told a jury at Bradford Crown Court how he went to the house between December 2008 and March 2009. He said Hamzah slept upright in a urine-soaked buggy that 'stank'. Mr Khan said his brother was left in a dirty nappy and he witnessed him eating the contents. 'Hamzah appeared neglected,' Mr Khan said. He explained to the jury: 'I was only at the house for a couple of days. The buggy smelled so bad of urine I got disinfectant and cleaned it out.' Mr Khan was also asked about a text message sent from his phone to Hutton in December 2008. Paul Greaney QC, prosecuting, said the text said: 'Watch out Monday you b****. I’m going to go to the police station to report you for child neglect and abuse. Look at Hamzah.' Mr Khan said he did not remember sending it. Asked by Stephen Meadowcroft QC, defending, if he was exaggerating what was happening at the house because he had a bad relationship with his mother, Mr Khan said: 'I’ve seen this with my own eyes.' Mr Khan told the court that when he was aged about 13, he was made to drink 'mouldy, off milk' by his mother as punishment.
He said his mother would spend her days drinking. 'She would go upstairs and drink and then I wouldn’t see her for most of the day,' he said. Earlier, Mr Khan refused to answer any questions when he first stepped into the witness box. But after a break he returned to court to give his evidence.
Qaiser Khan, 22, was giving evidence on the third day of the trial of his mother Amanda Hutton, who denies the manslaughter of her son Hamzah Khan
The prosecution has told the court Hutton starved her son to death. The defendant told police her son died after he was taken ill. Mr Meadowcroft said he was suggesting that Hutton was coping before Hamza’s death.
The barrister said: 'The child died tragically and it wasn’t her fault. After that, she collapsed.' Mr Khan said: 'Urined buggy - was that coping? That was before 2009. 'It was quite clear she wasn’t coping. She hadn’t cleaned the house up and she didn’t clean the nappies.' The trial continues.
'I didn't squeeze him so I wouldn't break his bones': Shock testimony of witness who tried to hug boy 'who was starved to death by his mother'
Witness can't be named but, it can be revealed, was present at the house
She told how Hamza Khan looked 'absolutely appalling' before his death
Amanda Hutton, 43, is on trial accused of her son's manslaughter
By Damien Gayle PUBLISHED: 18:17, 19 September 2013 | UPDATED: 19:14, 19 September 2013
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A witness in the case of a four-year-old boy who was allegedly starved to death described going to give him a hug but daring not squeeze him too much in case his bones broke. The witness, who cannot be named, told the jury at Bradford Crown Court how Hamza Khan was beneath an upturned drawer covered in blankets. 'I knew it was Hamzah because he was skinny and his baby suit,' the witness said and, describing how she had bent down to give the emaciated boy a hug, added: 'I didn't squeeze him so I wouldn't break his bones. 'He was that thin.'
Tragic: Police found the body of four-year-old Hamzah Khan in his mother's bedroom two years after his death. A witness today told how before he died she didn't dare to hug him too tightly because he was so thin
Hamza's mother Amanda Hutton, 43, from Bradford, is on trial accused of her son's manslaughter after police found the boy in a mummified state in her bedroom almost two years after his death. The witness, who was present at the house but cannot be identified, today described to the jury how Hamzah looked 'absolutely appalling' shortly before he died on December 15, 2009. 'He looked all crusty and pale,' the witness said. 'He looked really skinny, stick thin. He didn’t get fed much.'
The witness said Hamzah only got one meal a day and had difficulty walking. The jury has heard how Hamza’s body was found by police in September 2011 in cot in his mother’s bedroom at their home in Bradford. He had died 21 months before he was found, Bradford Crown Court was told. Prosecutors allege the little boy was severely malnourished and had starved to death. Hutton, who denies manslaughter, is expected to argue Hamzah died of natural causes, the jury has been told.
'She had a lot of alcohol': Hutton, of Bradford, who denies manslaughter, is expected to argue Hamzah died of natural causes, the jury has been told
The witness described Hutton’s house being filled with mouldy rubbish and faeces, saying: 'There were lots of bins bags. Lots of mould and wee and cat food.' Asked what was in the bin bags, the witness said: 'Empty bottles, crisp packets, snotty tissues and lots and lots of cans.' The witness went on to describe the bathroom in the terraced house. The court heard that the bath was full of cat faeces and also had vomit in it which had gone mouldy. Hutton vomited regularly, the witness told the court, and could not walk properly because of her alcohol consumption. 'She (Hutton) had a lot of alcohol and she had three bottles a day,' the witness said. 'And she smoked a lot. It was vodka, Smirnoff and something. Usually from the Co-op. 'She drank more vodka than water.' The witness added: 'She was always being sick.' Asked whether the tap worked in the bathroom sink, the witness said: 'Green stuff came out of it.' The witness told the jury that laundry did not get done. She (Hutton) couldn’t walk properly and she couldn’t be bothered either. 'They were just in the kitchen in bags. She said he was going to do it but she never did.' The witness described how Hutton would tell Hamzah to 'hurry up, you silly b******' and saw Hutton hit the little boy. The witness did not know what happened to Hamzah after December 15, 2009. 'But I saw something brown in the cot,' the witness said. 'It may have been Hamzah.' Later, Hutton's brother, Michael, told the court his sister had been a cannabis user since the late Eighties. But he said her heavy drinking started much later. Mr Hutton said his sister was 'knocked about' by her husband, Aftab Khan. He said he would visit her and find her with 'less and less teeth'. Stephen Meadowcroft QC, defending, told the court Hutton's house in 2011 was 'an absolute pig-sty, filled with rubbish - disgusting, the state of it'. Mr Meadowcroft asked Mr Hutton if he was turned away from that house in 2011 and he agreed that he was. The barrister asked Mr Hutton about the state of house when he visited in 2009. He replied: 'Perfectly decent, ordinary.' Hutton's other brother Christopher said, in a statement read to the court, that his sister had been a heavy cannabis user for as long as he could remember. The case continues.
Mother of boy, 4, found 'mummified' in cot claims he was fussy eater who 'starved himself to death'
Amanda Hutton said she held her son Hamzah, four, to him when he died
Says she didn't report his death because she was scared of doctors
Insists she didn't starve him but he refused to eat anything except bananas
Policeman who found boy's body tells of horror at gruesome discovery
By Hugo Gye PUBLISHED: 14:18, 25 September 2013 | UPDATED: 00:18, 26 September 2013
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Discovery: Amanda Hutton, pictured outside court today, says she 'panicked' when she found her son Hamzah dead
The mother of a four-year-old boy found ‘mummified’ in her bedroom claimed he was a fussy eater who had starved himself, a court heard. Amanda Hutton told police Hamzah Khan ‘would refuse point blank to eat’. Hutton, 43, who denies manslaughter, is accused of starving her son to death and hiding his body for almost two years. He was found in a mummified state by police investigating the stench at her Bradford home. Hutton told police she had tried in vain to revive Hamzah on the day he died in December 2009. ‘I didn’t know what to do,’ she said. Hamzah was found in September 2011, wearing clothing for a child of nine months. Hutton continued to claim child benefit for her dead son, Bradford Crown Court heard. The trial continues.
The court earlier heard Hutton told police she held her son Hamzah Khan after he starved to death - but did not tell the authorities about the tragedy because she felt 'numb' and was scared of doctors. The 43-year-old denies starving the boy, and said that she had repeatedly tried to make the four-year-old eat properly but he would only eat bananas and milk. A jury at Bradford Crown Court also heard yesterday how the police officer who found Hamzah's body in September 2011 started shaking and had to leave the room when he made the horrific discovery. Today the court heard transcripts from a series of police interviews with Hutton, from Bradford, when she was first arrested two years ago. She told detectives that Hamzah had always been unusually small and said that it was impossible to make him eat properly. 'He stopped eating even more over time,' she said. 'I was worried about him. I didn't know what to do about him. 'I was at my wit's end. He had really, really started to lose weight. I started to panic even more. Then he stopped eating altogether.' Hutton told officers that her son had fallen ill the day before he died, adding that she stayed up all night with him as he said: 'I love you mum. Are you alright mum?' In the morning she went to a supermarket intending to talk to a chemist about Hamzah, but her adult son Tariq phoned her while she was at the store, telling her that the four-year-old's eyes were rolling back into his head. She said she rushed home and gave the boy mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a bed, adding: 'I just panicked. 'I held him for quite a long time. I put him in the cot until I could think about what to do.' Hutton added that she had tried massaging his heart for 10 minutes, saying that when that failed, 'I picked him up and cried.' After Hamzah's death, she said, 'I was completely, completely numb. As each day went by, I just found it harder and harder to do anything about it.' Scroll down for video
Dead: The four-year-old boy's body was left to 'mummify' for two years before it was recovered by police
Asked by interviewing officers why she did not seek medical assistance, Hutton said: 'I'm not a doctor person. I have a fear of doctors and things like that.' She said that after her son's death she had begun to drink up to a litre of vodka every day and allowed her house to fall into a squalid state.
In one of the interviews, she said: 'He wasn't being starved, he would starve himself. He would not eat. He would refuse point blank to eat.' 'Ever since he's been born he's been fussy with eating. I just thought I could make him OK. I always worried about him. I worried about him from the day he was born.'
Shocked: Sergeant Richard Dove told the court he started shaking when he found Hamzah's body
She added: 'He was never a very happy child. He was quite a miserable child - that was just the way he was.' Hutton admitted that in his last few months, Hamzah would mainly eat only bananas and milk, saying that although it was not a proper diet, 'It was all he would eat. At least it was something.' Hutton said she tried to feed him the nourishment drink Complan to build him up. Asked if it worked, she told detectives: 'Not really, otherwise he would be here wouldn't he?' The jury was told calls were made to Pizza Hut and the Spicy Delight takeaway in the hours after Hamzah's death. The court also heard Hutton continued to claim Hamzah's child benefit after his death. Earlier today, the policeman who found the boy's body told the court of his shock and disgust at discovering the corpse buried under layers of bedding, clothing and shoes. Acting Sergeant Richard Dove said: 'I believe I can deal with any situation. But my right hand started shaking. I had to grab my hand to calm myself down. So I went downstairs.' He said he made the discovery after going in to the bedroom for a second time, adding: 'I felt as though there was something wrong.' Sgt Dove said: 'There was like clothing and shoes and bedding piled up in the cot. I started to take shoes and bedding off and working my way down through the layers.' Paul Greaney QC, prosecuting, asked the officer: 'What did you find?' Sgt Dove said: 'The body of a small child - Asian in origin.' He said the boy was wearing a white baby-gro and his head was tilted towards the right hand side. 'For a split second I thought, "Is that real?", doubting myself,' he added. The officer described to the court how skin from the child's face stuck to the final cover as he pulled it back. He said the face was 'mouldy' and 'to me, it was mummified'.
Accused: Hutton, pictured at an earlier hearing, denies killing her son by starving him to death
Sgt Dove said he was struck by the right hand of the body. 'It was a bit like a stump, like a fibrous stump - dried out.' The officer told the court he was 'transfixed' at that point by what he saw and felt he had to leave the house. Sgt Dove also described the terrible state of the house before he made his grim discovery. He said there was a smell he said was 'rubbish mixed with sweat mixed with urine' and rubbish piled everywhere. The officer said he found beds soaked in urine but eventually became 'acclimatised' to the stench. Hamzah's father, Aftab Khan, has told the court he confronted his ex-partner about their son's care, and tried to get social services involved. The trial continues.
Amanda Hutton told police she held her son Hamzah Khan after he starved to death at her home in Bradford - but did not tell the authorities about the tragedy.
According to attorney Richard A. Hutton, Amanda Bynes has come across as 'normal' and 'fine' in every interaction he has ever had with her, even in recent phone conversations since her arrest in New York City for reckless endangerment.
Amanda Hutton, 43, is accused of manslaughter at Bradford Crown Court after the mummified remains of her son Hamzah Khan were found in his cot next to a teddy bear.
Amanda Hutton warned her eldest son Tariq Khan, who has admitted failing to bury the body of his brother Hamzah Khan, to stop him going to the police, Bradford Crown Court heard.
The officer told a jury at Bradford Crown Court today that something was not right when she visited the home of Amanda Hutton, pictured, in September 2011.
Hamzah Khan, whose skeletal remains were only discovered almost two years after he died in at his mother Amanda Hutton's filthy home had never been seen by a GP after his birth, Bradford Crown Court heard.
Hamzah Khan's body was still dressed in a baby-gro when police made the 'dreadful discovery' at Amanda Hutton's (pictured) house in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER,JAMES RUSH All By This Author - 21/09/2013 22:16:34
Aftab Khan was giving evidence on the third day of the trial of into the death of little Hamzah Khan at Bradford Crown Court of his mother Amanda Hutton, who denies manslaughter.
Social services, police, health workers and teachers were all in regular contact with mother-of-eight Amanda Hutton, 43, an alcoholic and cannabis addict.
To recap on today's events: A judge has jailed Amanda Hutton for 15 years after she starved her four-year-old son Hamzah Khan to death, and left his body in a travel cot in her squalid home for almost two years.
The mother-of-eight was also jailed for the neglect of five of her other children and for preventing the burial of Hamzah's body.
Judge Roger Thomas told alcoholic Hutton she had failed in her "most basic duties" as a mother, had put her "selfish addiction" to drinking well before the needs of her children, and "must be regarded as a real danger to any child with whom you may live, or in any way have care of in the future".
Hutton's eldest son, Tariq Khan, was given a suspended two-year jail sentence after he too admitted preventing the burial of his younger brother's body.
He told police how Hutton had threatened to kill her other children if he told anyone about what had happened to Hamzah. Read the judge's comments in full here.
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More comments from Jugde Roger Thomas here.
He said all the offences he was sentencing Hutton for arose "from your terrible failures to fulfil the most basic responsibilities that you, as a mother, should have fulfilled".
He said the manslaughter of Hamzah involved "failing to provide him with anything like adequate nourishment over a long period of time - in short you starved him to death".
In terms of the five child cruelty charges she admitted, the judge said that related to a period of nearly three years "when, on an ever declining scale, you failed your young children, causing them to live in quite appalling conditions of squalor which understandably shocked even the most seasoned police officers who attended your home in September 2011".
He told Hutton she "must be regarded as a real danger to any child with whom you may live, or in any way have care of in the future".
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Full details on today's sentencing hearing - where Amanda Hutton was jailed for 15 year - can be found here.
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Hutton showed no emotion as she was led from the dock.
Judge Roger Thomas QC told her: "The details of your wicked conduct have been displayed in such awful detail over the past three weeks in the trial that concluded yesterday."
He said the offences "demonstrate a most fundamental and serious breach of any duty that an individual in decent society can owe to others - namely the duty that a parent owes to her or his young children to take proper care of them".
The judge said the children were found in a situation that was "breathtakingly awful".
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Hutton's eldest son Tariq Khan, 24, was given a two-year suspended sentence for preventing the burial of his younger brother.
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Hutton has been jailed for 15 years for starving her son to death, preventing the burial of his body, and neglect of five of her other children.
12:43 pm
The judge has begun his sentencing remarks.
He will give Hutton consecutive sentences for each of the charges she faces, including Hamzah's manslaughter and neglect of five of her other children.
12:03 pm
Our reporter Lucy Thornton says Tariq Khan alleged his mum held a knife to one child's throat just two days after Hamzah's death.
He also said she threatened to burn their house down.
The judge has now taken a short break, and will sentence Hutton and Khan at 12.30pm.
11:47 am
Judge Roger Thomas QC has also been told that one of Hutton's neighbours alerted social services to her concerns about the family six months before Hamzah's body was found.
Mr Greaney said the neighbour contacted social services in March 2011 as she was concerned about things she had observed.
The woman, who cannot be named, said she did this because of children crying and not being comforted, threatening voices towards the youngsters, blinds never being open and children not playing outside.
In a text message the woman wrote about her anonymous call to social services, she wrote: "Better to be safe than sorry."
Mr Greaney said the history of what happened after this was "complex" but social services, education services and the police "were all involved to a greater or lesser extent".
But, the prosecutor said, these activities did not result in Hamzah's body being discovered and the other children being rescued.
11:42 am
A bit more detail coming through on what Tariq Khan told police during his interviews.
Tariq, 24, claims Hutton told him not to tell anyone about what had happened to Hamzah or she would kill her other children.
He made the claim during an interview with police, which was read out to the judge this morning.
Prosecutor Paul Greaney QC said that Tariq told police that "if he said anything, she would kill the rest of the children".
Tariq is also facing sentencing for preventing the burial of his younger brother's body.
Our reporter Lucy Thornton is at Bradford Crown Court. She says prosecutors have told the judge "the lady in the dock killed that child".
Tariq Khan, who is also being sentenced for preventing the burial of Hamzah's corpse, claims his mother made him keep quiet about his brother's death with a threat to kill the other children.
10:40 am
Also being sentenced today is Amanda Hutton's oldest son, Tariq.
The 24-year-old pleaded guilty to preventing the burial of a corpse following Hamzah's death in 2009.
Hutton pleaded guilty to the same charge, as well as five counts of child neglect against five of her other children, aged five to 13.
She had denied Hamzah's manslaughter but was convicted following the two-week trial.
10:30 am
Journalists in the court room in Bradford say it is so full that security guards are turning people away. Sentencing is now due to get underway at 10.30am.
10:14 am
It's being reported there are large queues of people outside the court room at Bradford Crown Court, waiting to see Amanda Hutton sentenced.
After the mother's conviction on Thursday, serious questions have been raised over how a variety of different care agencies failed to protect Hamzah Khan.
Bradford Safeguarding Children Board has carried out a serious case review into the involvement of different agencies with the family. The results are due to be published later this year.
10:03 am
Judge Roger Thomas QC, the Recorder of Bradford, is due to begin sentencing Amanda Hutton at Bradford Crown Court at 10am this morning.
We'll bring you updates from the court room as we get them.
Yesterday, police also released this footage of Hutton arriving at a police station to be charged with killing her four-year-old son.
The alcoholic is seen looking unsteady on her feet, and has to sit down at one point as she is led through the custody suite.
9:57 am
The police officer whose work helped to uncover Hutton's dark secret said yesterday it was "mother's intuition" that prompted her to pursue her investigation.
Pc Jodie Dunsmore, a mum of three, was only on her second day working as a police community support officer when she was called to investigate a neighbour's complaint at the Hutton house in September 2011.
She then made repeated visits to the house as she tried to get Hutton to let her inside.
She said: "I do not know whether it was the third visit or the fourth visit but something was starting to happen.
"I am aware that a family was there. Call it, I don't know, a mother's intuition, gut instinct... something wasn't right."
PC Jodie Dunsmore
PA
9:42 am
Hutton's own father today branded his daughter a "wicked" woman, and called for a change in the law to give more power to health professionals.
Alan Hutton, 71, said he had not even been told about little Hamzah's birth and said he felt shamed by what his daughter had done.
He said: "She is my daughter, but I am left wondering if there is a wickedness there, and I think that there is. What she has done is evil."
"What kind of mother starves her own child to death? Can she even be a part of the human race?"
Amanda Hutton
PA
9:30 am
Following yesterday's verdict, police released pictures of the inside of Hutton's house, revealing the appalling conditions in which Hamzah lived and died.
In the photographs, rubbish is seen piled high on every floor and surface, and police officers who visited the house described the "vile smell" caused by the stacks of trash, empty booze bottles, and human and cat faeces.
Hutton's bath was filled with her own vomit, and mould covered a fridge which was filled with out-of-date ready meals.
Five of her eight children continued to live among the rotting junk, and in the same house as their brother's body.
The kitchen at the home
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9:10 am
Amanda Hutton will be sentenced this morning for starving her four-year-old son Hamzah Khan to death.
The 43-year-old alcoholic mother was convicted of manslaughter by a jury yesterdayon the basis that she was grossly negligent by not providing adequate nourishment for Hamzah.
The toddler's mummified remains were found in a travel cot by police two years after his death, in a house where conditions were described as squalid and vile.
Hutton had denied manslaughter throughout her two-week trial, but admitted a charge of child cruelty in respect of each of five of her other children, aged between five and 13.
She also pleaded guilty to preventing the burial of a corpse, along with her eldest son Tariq, 24.
Both will be sentenced later today by Judge Roger Thomas QC, the Recorder of Bradford.
Four-year-old Hamzah Khan whose decomposed body was found in Crofton Road, Bradford
A man has been found guilty of murdering his partner's three-year-old nephew after the child wet the bed they were sharing.
Ben Igbinedion, 44, inflicted "catastrophic" injuries upon Daniel Evbuomwan that were so severe they were likened to those caused by a car crash. Igbinedion, of Bromley, south London, had put Daniel back to sleep in a different bed but when family members tried to wake him in the morning he did not respond.
The youngster suffered multiple injuries to his ribs and multiple fractures to his pelvis.
They were described by Professor Anthony Risdon, who carried out a post-mortem examination as "among the most severe he had seen".
Daniel had been living with his grandmother Rosemary since earlier this year and was in normal physical health but all that dramatically changed when he went to stay with Igbinedion and his family in March, the court heard.
Daniel's grandmother had wanted to go shopping and to church so it was decided he should stay with his aunt Sandra Okundaye, a nurse, and her partner Igbinedion, jurors were told. Ms Okundaye was away working that night and Igbinedion was left in charge of looking after Daniel and his three children, the trial heard.
At bedtime, Igbinedion stated that Daniel and his youngest son should sleep in his room, while the other children slept in their own room, it was claimed.
In the early hours of the morning on March 2, one of the children was woken by Igbinedion telling off Daniel for wetting the bed, the court heard.
Giving his own evidence, Igbinedion told the court that he treated the boy as if he was his own son.
Igbinedion claimed he woke Daniel up at 5.30am to use the toilet, before returning the boy to the children's bedroom and turning the light off.
He accepted the youngster had been well during the day but could not explain what happened.
Daniel's cousins had tried to wake the boy but after several attempts he slumped from the bed to the floor.
He was taken to University Hospital in Lewisham, south east London, where he was pronounced dead at 11.25am. Igbinedion, who denied murder but was convicted at the Old Bailey, is due to be sentenced on November 27.
Le royaume de l’enfer existe bien sur terre et surtout aux Etats-Unis grâce à la décadence de l’occident, au monopole de militarisation des super puissances, y compris l’entité terroriste baptisée Eretz Israël, à l’Organisation Totalitaire des Nations Unies et de ses tentacules, à la décadence des religions dites révélées, à la dégénération de l’espèce humaine et de son mode de vie, à l’esclavage à l’échelon mondial dans pratiquement toutes les sphères de la vie quotidienne – un véritable règne de Satan sur terre. Par exemple, les prisons occidentaux et celles de leurs alliés, leurs camps d’incarcération, leurs camps de concentrations et de tortures, leurs laboratoires secrets et leurs camps d’entraînement pour leurs mercenaires assassins sont autant d’endroits où l’on peut visiter l’enfer sur terre sans oublier les centres où l’on pratique le meurtre légale des bébés (avortement). En Europe, “les Lumières » est dans les faits synonyme de l’Obscurantisme du libéralisme ou la morale n’existe plus et ou le bien commun est dicté par le profit, le capitalisme, dont les « Juifs » modernes (Khazaris) revendiquent la création et le monopole, mais dont le but final fut d’enrichir les riches et les pervers et d’appauvrir tout le reste de la population nationale et mondiale, donc contre le bien commun, une supercherie qui a trompé les masses pendant plus d’un siècle à qui des voyous ont fait croire qu’il existait un « moyen » âge « moyenâgeux » alors que l’Islam resplendissait dans les trois ou quatre coins du globe et que l’occident avait commencé son rayonnement en grande partie grâce aux acquis des Musulmans universalistes. Les voyous ont décapité la monarchie et l’église catholique pour profiter à Israël, cette entité tribaliste, sanguinaire, terroriste, raciste, à qui le libéralisme anti-catholique, anti-islamique, anti-arabe et anti-musulman, a accordé le droit de voler la Palestine pour en faire un acquis éternel, et de faire la guerre au monde entier, le piller, le détruire, et asservir les survivants au nom du profit et de leurs idéologies perverses.
L’un des plus gros mensonges des « Illuminatis », c’est de faire croire au monde entier, bombe à la main, que la femme est l’égale de l’homme pour ensuite imposer leur religion de la supériorité de la femme, qui seule a le droit de vie ou de mort sur le bébé qu’elle porte et peut se prostituer à volonté mais jamais se marier à un homme déjà marié, la supériorité des homosexuels, des Juifs, des drogués de tous genres, et des Athées sur le monde.
I think the father is just as bad he should have also cared for his son instead of which he was either beating his partner or his son both very evil👹
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ReplyDeleteLe royaume de l’enfer existe bien sur terre et surtout aux Etats-Unis grâce à la décadence de l’occident, au monopole de militarisation des super puissances, y compris l’entité terroriste baptisée Eretz Israël, à l’Organisation Totalitaire des Nations Unies et de ses tentacules, à la décadence des religions dites révélées, à la dégénération de l’espèce humaine et de son mode de vie, à l’esclavage à l’échelon mondial dans pratiquement toutes les sphères de la vie quotidienne – un véritable règne de Satan sur terre. Par exemple, les prisons occidentaux et celles de leurs alliés, leurs camps d’incarcération, leurs camps de concentrations et de tortures, leurs laboratoires secrets et leurs camps d’entraînement pour leurs mercenaires assassins sont autant d’endroits où l’on peut visiter l’enfer sur terre sans oublier les centres où l’on pratique le meurtre légale des bébés (avortement).
En Europe, “les Lumières » est dans les faits synonyme de l’Obscurantisme du libéralisme ou la morale n’existe plus et ou le bien commun est dicté par le profit, le capitalisme, dont les « Juifs » modernes (Khazaris) revendiquent la création et le monopole, mais dont le but final fut d’enrichir les riches et les pervers et d’appauvrir tout le reste de la population nationale et mondiale, donc contre le bien commun, une supercherie qui a trompé les masses pendant plus d’un siècle à qui des voyous ont fait croire qu’il existait un « moyen » âge « moyenâgeux » alors que l’Islam resplendissait dans les trois ou quatre coins du globe et que l’occident avait commencé son rayonnement en grande partie grâce aux acquis des Musulmans universalistes. Les voyous ont décapité la monarchie et l’église catholique pour profiter à Israël, cette entité tribaliste, sanguinaire, terroriste, raciste, à qui le libéralisme anti-catholique, anti-islamique, anti-arabe et anti-musulman, a accordé le droit de voler la Palestine pour en faire un acquis éternel, et de faire la guerre au monde entier, le piller, le détruire, et asservir les survivants au nom du profit et de leurs idéologies perverses.
L’un des plus gros mensonges des « Illuminatis », c’est de faire croire au monde entier, bombe à la main, que la femme est l’égale de l’homme pour ensuite imposer leur religion de la supériorité de la femme, qui seule a le droit de vie ou de mort sur le bébé qu’elle porte et peut se prostituer à volonté mais jamais se marier à un homme déjà marié, la supériorité des homosexuels, des Juifs, des drogués de tous genres, et des Athées sur le monde.
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