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

What chances were missed to save Finley Boden?

Finley Boden
Finley Boden had been placed in the care of relatives after his birth owing to concerns about his parents, Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden. Photograph: Derbyshire police

Just 39 days after Finley Boden was returned to the care of his parents, the 10-month-old was dead.

In that short period of time he suffered “significant, substantial and repeated acts of severe violence” at their home in Old Whittington, Chesterfield, leaving him with 130 separate injuries and almost every bone in his body broken.

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