Ten-month-old Finley Boden was placed back in his drug-taking parents’ care just months before they murdered him after a Family Court was told they did not pose an unmanageable risk, new documents show.
A transcript of a Family Court hearing, held over the phone during the pandemic, has been released following an application to the High Court by the PA news agency and other media.
It shows that despite calls by the local council for a gradual four-month transition back into the care of parents Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden and drug testing for the pair, the court ordered he be returned to them within eight weeks without any tests.
