Two evil parents broke their baby's bones in what was described as a "savage and prolonged" murder.
Shannon Marsden, 30, and Stephen Boden, 20 - described as "monsters" by a relative - inflicted "vicious and repeated assaults" on their 10-month-old son, Finley Boden, in the space of just over a month in their filthy home near Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Finley died on Christmas Day 2020 and was found to have 130 separate injuries at the time of his death, as well as diseases including sepsis and pneumonia.
The injuries included a broken pelvis, broken shoulder, fractured shinbone, fractured collarbones, several fractured ribs and four separate thighbone fractures, as well as 71 bruises and other burns, with his blood, vomit and faeces found on his clothes and body. Today, Friday, May 26, Marsden and Boden were handed life sentences with respective minimum terms of 27 and 29 years at Derby Crown Court.
