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Bradford Council: https://news.sky.com/story/star-hobson-bradford-council-stripped-of-childrens-and-social-care-services-in-wake-of-toddlers-death-12525149
Scariest Place I've worked: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/17/scariest-place-ive-worked-social-worker-recalls-stint-in-bradford
Court of appeal: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/12/star-hobson-killing-mothers-sentence-referred-to-court-of-appeal
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The eight-year jail sentence handed to Frankie Smith for causing or allowing the death of her toddler daughter, Star Hobson, has been referred to the court of appeal.
Suella Braverman, the attorney general, said the case was “tragic and extremely upsetting” and she believed 20-year-old Smith’s sentence was “unduly lenient”.
Smith was jailed last month after being convicted of causing or allowing the death of her 16-month-old daughter, after a jury cleared her of murder and manslaughter charges. Her partner, Savannah Brockhill, 28, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 25 years.
Braverman said she had concluded that she could not refer Brockhill’s sentence. “I can only challenge a sentence if it is not just lenient but unduly so, such that the sentencing judge made a gross error or imposed a sentence outside the range of sentences reasonably available in the circumstances of the offence. The threshold is a high one, and the test was not met in this case,” she said in a statement.
