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Mother jailed for killing toddler

Rebecca Shuttleworth has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 18 years after being convicted of beating to death her two-year-old son. Keanu Williams had suffered 37 separate injuries, including extensive bruising to his head, when he died.

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Keanu died a 'lingering death at the hands of his mother'

Explaining how he had arrived at the 18-year minimum term, Mr Justice Spencer said the murder was aggravated by several factors:

His was a lingering death over many hours following a brutal assault by his own mother.

This was the grossest abuse of a position of trust - you were his mother and it was your most basic and natural duty to protect him.

I accept that there was no intention to kill but this was a brutal and sustained attack.

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