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Susie Beever

'Calculating' killer who filmed stepson, 3, dying on floor then sent chilling text jailed

A woman who fatally struck her stepson and filmed him as he lay dying has been jailed for 15 years.

Leila Borrington, 23, of Jacksdale, Nottinghamshire, was sentenced on Thursday morning after she was cleared of Harvey Borrington's murder but found guilty of unlawful killing, wounding and assault last month.

A long-running trial was told that her stepson Harvey, who had non-verbal autism, suffered a broken arm before sustaining a fatal head injury in August 2012.

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