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Nottingham Post
Nottingham Post
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John Siddle & Christine Challand & Jamie Barlow

Leila Borrington who killed stepson Harvey still plans to marry his dad

Leila Borrington, who killed her stepson Harvey and was jailed for manslaughter this week, is regularly visited in prison by Harvey's dad. Leila, 23, left three-year-old Harvey Borrington with fatal head injuries - and she was jailed for 15 years.

She filmed young Harvey in a state of collapse. And Nottingham Crown Court was told she messaged Harvey’s dad Jonathan Borrington, 33, saying: “Why does this happen to me?”

Yet relatives have revealed the pair, who got engaged two months before the August 2021 killing, have enjoyed regular visits at Derbyshire’s HMP Foston Hall and still aim to wed, the Mirror Reports.

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