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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

Leicester woman given life term for 2012 murder of one-year-old baby

Katie Tidmarsh
Katie Tidmarsh was given a life sentence for the murder of Ruby Thompson in August 2012. Photograph: Leicester police

A woman has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 17 years for murdering the one-year-old baby she was in the process of adopting, after failing to disclose mental health problems to the adoption panel.

Katie Tidmarsh, 39, was convicted of murdering Ruby Thompson, who sustained catastrophic brain damage and died in hospital in August 2012.

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