The devastated birth mother of little Harvey Borrington described him as "my beautiful little boy". Addressing the court, while Harvey's cruel stepmother sat silent in the dock after she killed him, Katie Holroyd spoke of her memories of him.
"He was everything to me," said Miss Holroyd as she fought back tears in the witness stand at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday (March 16). "A treasured grandson to my parents, Sandra and Alan Hoyroyd, who called Harvey their 'little man'.
Borrington, 23, was found guilty of his manslaughter in February, and cleared of Harvey's murder, and was jailed on Thursday (March 16) for 15 years. The three-year-old, who had non-verbal autism, sustained fatal head injuries, including a fractured skull and a bleed on the brain, at Borrington's home in Main Road, Jacksdale, near Mansfield, on August 7, 2021.
