A children’s agency which was involved in the decision to hand Finley Boden back to his parents weeks before they murdered him has said that “everyone involved” thought the pair had changed.
The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) also said that “no-one could have predicted” Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden would murder their 10-month-old son after he returned to their care.
Little Finley fatally collapsed on Christmas Day 2020, just over a month after he returned to his parents’ home in Old Whittington, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, after a Family Court ordered his return on October 1 that year.
