A seven-year-old Birmingham girl starved to death after a catalogue of "missed opportunities" by social services and other professionals, a serious case review has found.Read
Angela Gordon was jailed for 15 years and her former partner Junaid Abuhamza was jailed indefinitely with a minimum term of seven-and-half years at Birmingham Crown Court today for the manslaughter of seven-year-old starvation victim Khyra Ishaq.Read
The sentencing of the mother and stepfather of a seven-year-old Birmingham girl who starved to death has been adjourned so the judge can hear evidence from psychiatrists in person.Read
CHILDREN’S Secretary Ed Balls has pledged to do whatever it takes to hold to account the people who failed to save seven-year-old Khyra Ishaq from a ghastly death.Read
The city council’s opposition Labour group is supporting the Mail’s demand for a formal investigation into mistakes by social workers and education officials which resulted in the gruesome death of seven-year-old Khyra.Read
But the Office for Standards in Eduction (Ofsted) has previously said a third of serious case reviews are “inadequate” and need to be more independent, child-focused and prepared with greater urgency.Read
A 43-page Family Court Judgment, which has only now been made fully public, is a harrowing account of the events leading up to the seven-year-old’s death from starvation.Read
Two of Khyra’s five siblings nearly died in hospital because of “Re-feeding syndrome” a phenomenon first seen in the Nazi concentration camps of Eastern Europe.Read
March 16, 2007 – Gordon writes to the school and asks the staff to make sure that none of the children receive second helpings of food. There is also a meeting at school where Gordon is told that Khyra has been caught stealing food.Read
THE city council today continued to defend the appointment of an £800 per day PR consultant to help protect its image in the wake of the tragic Khyra Ishaq case.Read
THE devastated father of Khyra Ishaq spoke lovingly of the daughter starved to death by her mum and step-dad and said: ‘‘What they did was evil – I’ll never forgive them.’’Read
