The Latest Breaking News from Thomas Hughes

Review calls for child protection overhaul in England after two deaths

Report in wake of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson killings proposes new specialist teams

The Guardian - UK · May 25, 2022

Dedicated child protection teams vital to prevent future tragedies, review finds

Concerns raised by their wider family members were ‘too often’ disregarded and not properly investigated, the review said.

The Independent UK · May 25, 2022

Whistleblower alert as 300 children left without a social worker at crisis-hit council

Whistleblower Dorcas Taylor accused an improvement team brought in at Herefordshire Council of 'running around like headless chickens', adding that kids at high risk had been left without intervention

Daily Mirror · May 21, 2022

Five killers including triple murderer who smothered his baby have jail terms reviewed by judges

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’ murderer, Emma Tustin, is being considered for a whole life order

The Independent UK · May 4, 2022

Wayne Couzens deserves ‘decades in jail’ not whole-life order, court hears

Senior judges hear challenges or appeals to prison sentences of five killers, including Couzens and double murderer Ian Stewart

The Guardian - UK · May 4, 2022

Emma Tustin: Call for whole life sentence for murderer of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes

The killer of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes tried to kill herself after she was jailed for life for the six-year-old’s murder, as she faces the possibility of the rest of her life in prison.

Evening Standard · May 4, 2022

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes ‘faced systematic brutality amounting to torture’

Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes are among five killers having their sentences reviewed.

The Independent UK · May 4, 2022

Wayne Couzens and killers of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes to have sentences reviewed

Ex-Pc Couzens was handed a whole-life term last year for the rape and murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard

Wales Online · May 4, 2022

Court of Appeal to review Wayne Couzens and other killers’ sentences

Senior judges will hear challenges or appeals to the sentences of five killers, including the whole-life term for the killer of Sarah Everard.

The Independent UK · May 4, 2022

Evil killers of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes could die in prison in bid to extend sentences

The pair could soon be hit with whole life orders

Manchester Evening News · Apr 29, 2022