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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Jordan Reynolds

Prime Minister discusses new child cruelty register with Hudgell family

Sir Keir Starmer with Tony Hudgell inside No 10 (Dan Kitwood/PA) - (PA Wire)

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has met campaigner Paula Hudgell and her adopted son Tony, who was assaulted by his birth parents, and discussed a proposed new child cruelty register.

Tony, 11, was just 41 days old when Jody Simpson and her partner Anthony Smith attacked him, causing multiple fractures and dislocations, and blunt trauma to the face, leading to organ failure, toxic shock and sepsis.

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