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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jamie Grierson

Killers of ‘loving little boy’ Kyrell Matthews jailed

Kyrell Matthews
Police had been called to a domestic incident three months before Kyrell Matthews’ death but no offences were identified. Photograph: Metropolitan police/PA

A man who murdered his ex-girlfriend’s two-year-old son in south London has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years after the couple’s horrific abuse was captured on secret recordings.

Kyrell Matthews was left with 41 rib fractures and internal injuries by the time of his death in October 2019 after weeks of cruelty at the hands of Kemar Brown and Phylesia Shirley, the Old Bailey in London heard.

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