Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden, who was found guilty of murdering their 10-month-old son Finley Boden, on Christmas Day 2020, have been jailed for life at Derby Crown Court with minimum terms of 27 and 29 years respectively.
The pair who told “a series of persistent lies” to win back and then brutally murder their son had a “sadistic motivation”, their sentencing hearing has heard. Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden are being sentenced at Derby Crown Court for what a prosecutor described as a “savage and prolonged” murder of their son, Finley Boden.
Finley died just weeks after being returned to his parents’ care by a Family Court at their filthy home in Holland Road, Old Whittington, near Chesterfield in Derbyshire. By the time of his death, the 10-month-old had sustained 130 separate injuries including bruises, broken and fractured bones, and burns, which prosecutor Mary Prior KC told the court on Friday were the result of “vicious and repeated assaults”.
