Star Hobson's mother is HERSELF victim of her murder barrister claims
Star Hobson’s mother is HERSELF a victim of her 16-month-old daughter’s murder at hands of her ‘pure evil’ partner, her barrister tells court
- Frankie Smith was described as another victim of Samantha Brockhill this morning in court mitigation speech
- Brockhill murdered girlfriend Smith’s daughter Star Hobson in September last year at their Keighley home
- She was taken to hospital on September 22 last year with unsurvivable injuries, including punches and kicks
- Star’s wounds were ’caused by a severe and forceful blow or blows’ and stamping to her abdomen
Star Hobson’s mother was described as ‘another victim’ of the little girl’s murderer by her lawyer in court this morning
Frankie Smith is being sentenced for causing or allowing 16-month-old Star’s death alongside her former partner Savannah Brockhill, who was found guilty of the youngster’s murder.
Addressing Bradford Crown Court, Zafar Ali QC, for Smith, said: ‘She is herself a victim of the murder count, having lost her daughter.
‘She was plainly unaware of the seriousness of the assaults being inflicted on her daughter.’
Bouncer and security guard Brockhill, 28, was branded ‘pure evil’ by Star’s family, who said she ‘ascended from the bowels of hell’ after she was on Tuesday found guilty of murdering the youngster.
A jury heard Star endured months of assaults and psychological harm before suffering ‘utterly catastrophic’ injuries in her home in Keighley, West Yorkshire.
Smith, 20, was cleared of murder but was convicted of causing or allowing the toddler’s death – an offence with a 14-year maximum prison sentence.
Today Mr Ali asked judge Mrs Justice Lambert to take a number of things into account before sentencing Smith, including that she has no previous convictions and is ‘remorseful for her wilful ill-treatment of Star’.
Kath Goddard QC, for Brockhill, said her client had written to the judge on Wednesday morning but the content of this note was not read to the court.
She explained how Brockhill’s arrest had put her whole family in danger and described how her brother-in-law had been subject to an ‘extremely violent assault’, leaving him with a fractured skull.
Ms Goddard said: ‘The wider Brockhill family have been, and I anticipate they will continue to be, subjected to intimidation or, at the very least, unpleasant behaviour which they do not deserve.
‘Miss Brockhill is extremely conscious that she had brought this on her family.’
Ms Goddard said her client collapsed at the beginning of the trial and suffered three seizures and two cardiac arrests.
She said she discharged herself from hospital so the trial could continue but the cause of this illness has not yet been determined.
The jury heard the injuries which caused the toddler’s death involved extensive damage to her abdominal cavity. Pictured: Smith and Brockhill
Police released a picture of Star smiling happily before the torment from her mother and her murdering girlfriend began
Partners in death: Savannah Brockhill, 28 and Frankie Smith, 20, have both been convicted over killing Star Hobson
Police have released a harrowing picture of one of the bruises on Star’s face that sparked calls to social services from family
The Facebook post from Star’s great-grandfather demanded to know why she had suddenly appeared with bruises
Tuesday’s verdicts came in the wake of the widespread outcry over the abuse and murder of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, and the Star case was described by Boris Johnson as ‘shocking and heartbreaking’.
The Prime Minister said: ‘We must protect children from these barbaric crimes and ensure lessons are learned.’
Social services missed five opportunities to stop Star’s killers, including her great-grandfather’s partner, in the months before her death on September 22, 2020.
Great-grandparents Neil Fawcett and Anita Smith say they had their concerns dismissed by the Bradford City Council authorities despite warning them Star could be the ‘next Baby P’.
Mr Fawcett posted a harrowing two pictures of the toddler, one of her looking happy, followed by one he had been sent of the girl bruised in a message to her mother.
He demanded: ‘From this to this in five weeks, what’s going on Frankie?’
Her reaction was to block him online and restrict access to her. Social services failed to do anything to stop the couple keeping her.
Mr Fawcett said they warned the the authorities: ‘We don’t want another Baby P on our hands here, do we?’.
But they say they were accused of being ‘troublemakers who made the complaint because we didn’t like gipsies or same sex relationships’.
Mr Fawcett – who is Mrs Smith senior’s new husband – revealed ‘The lady on the phone from social services said, ‘how do you mean?’, and we were shocked at her reaction.
‘Well, Baby P died through abuse, and we’re making a complaint. My first reaction would have been, ‘yeah, right, we’re on the ball, we’ll sort this one out, we don’t want another Baby P’. Especially with them being the social services. It just came across as being a bit shambolic, really, Absolutely shambolic.’
The verdicts come 11 days after the stepmother of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Emma Tustin, was jailed for his murder in a case that caused widespread shock and revulsion.
Abused Star was so dazed she walked into a sofa in view of social worker during one visit
Footage was shown of Brockhill taking Star to a recycling plant where she worked and repeatedly hit her inside the car
Frankie Smith, 20, and her partner, Savannah Brockhill, 28, killed Smith’s daughter Star Hobson (pictured) at her home in Keighley, West Yorkshire
Star Hobson (pictured with Brockhill) suffered a cardiac arrest and died in hospital from appalling injuries inflicted on her
A timeline of failures: How social services and police missed abuse of tragic Star
January 23, 2020 – A referral from Smith’s friend and sometimes babysitter Hollie Jones went to social services.
She flagged up potential domestic violence issues and the fact Star was increasingly being left in her care.
Three days later police visited but there were no concerns raised. Social services tried to visit Smith on January 28 but she was not home.
Her family were spoken to and no problems were raised, so the case was closed on February 27.
May 5, 2020 – Star’s great-grandmother Anita Smith contacted social services over concerns over how the baby was being treated.
They visited but there were no bruises to either the baby or her mother.
Social services spoke to Frankie Smith and Brockhill and the latter gave them permission to do police checks on her.
June 21, 2020 – Jordan Hobson, Star’s father, referred Smith and Brockhill to social services after seeing pictures the couple had shared of his daughter’s bruised face.
Police again visited their home and saw the markings on the baby’s head.
Smith told them Star had hit her head on the handle of a coffee table.
A medical examination found two bruises on her cheek and four on the back of her leg.
Smith and Brockhill’s explanation that they were from her playing with a puppy were believed.
June 23, 2020 – Social services were again contacted by Rachel Whiteley, a close friend of Smith’s mother Yvonne Spendley.
She had been concerned how Smith had treated Star at a barbecue, picking her up roughly.
Ms Whiteley said at the time: ‘I thought it was disgusting, giving her barbecue food, the way she handled her.’
Social services closed the case in July, it is not clear what was done.
September 2, 2020 – Frank Smith – Star’s paternal great-grandfather – alerted social services to a video of Star with bruises on her face.
When they visited her, her mother was said to have been in Scotland.
The next day they went again unannounced and found her at home with Brockhill.
They noticed Star was so unsteady on her feet she walked into a sofa while they were there.
There were also bruises on her cheek and right shin but were told by Brockhill she had fallen down the stairs.
The murderer told police later what the social worker had said, adding: ‘Social services came to see Star, she checked her body, her bedroom, chatted with us about Star, she said the report was malicious.’
On September 15 social services closed the case, indeed concluding the referral had been ‘malicious’.
A week later Star was murdered.
The abuse included the toddler being ‘choke-slammed’ being forced to stand facing a wall and being repeatedly punched.
Smith – who has a very low IQ of 70 – was said to have been domineered by her older partner and so enthralled by her she lost interest in her own daughter.
Eric Wright, a consultant clinical psychologist, told her trial it meant she was was in the lowest two per cent of people for general intelligence – and in the top three for compliance and suggestibility.
Brockhill was aggressively possessive of her and threatened on Snapchat to ‘put anyone in a chair’ who messaged her.
Jurors were shown footage which prosecutors said showed Brockhill delivering 21 blows to Star in a car over three hours, some as the toddler sat in a car seat.
The video came from a camera at a recycling plant in Doncaster where Brockhill was working as a security guard, and was filmed about eight days before Star’s death.
It appeared to show her punching Star with what the prosecutor described as ‘considerable force’.
At one point the youngster fell out of the vehicle. Brockhill also grabbed Star by the throat. They also ‘choke slammed’ the little girl in a twisted discipline metered out.
Another film which was shown to the jury, described by the prosecutor as ‘disturbing and bizarre’, showed Star falling off a plastic chair and hitting the floor.
The mobile phone footage had been slowed down with music added, plus a caption which said ‘in this moment she realises she has messed up’.
Another clip, filmed on both defendants’ phones, showed Star being so exhausted she fell forward and went to sleep in a bowl of food.
Star was taken to hospital on September 22, 2020, but the injuries she had suffered were ‘unsurvivable’, Alistair MacDonald QC told Bradford Crown Court.
The jury heard the injuries which caused the toddler’s death involved extensive damage to her abdominal cavity.
These were ’caused by a severe and forceful blow or blows, either in the form of punching, stamping or kicking to the abdomen’.
Brockhill – who has a traveller background and left school aged ten – lied the injuries were caused by a two-year-old child, which the prosecution branded ‘absurd’ and added it was ‘quite impossible for the doctors to envisage it could have been inflicted by a child’.
Social services were warned five times Smith and Brockhill were not looking after Star properly and could be abusing her – but it was written off as malicious rumours.
West Yorkshire Police today also released a picture of the young girl with heavy bruising on her face, weeks before she was murdered.
The appalling injury begs questions as to how anyone could have believed it ever could have been caused by an innocent accident.
Prosecuting, Mr MacDonald said Smith and Brockhill were the only adults in the flat at the time.
Star suffered a split to the liver, a tear to the fatty attachments of the bowel and bruising to the lower part of the lungs and the pancreas, the court was told.
He said: ‘The effect of such injuries was immediate and heavy bleeding into the abdominal cavity, which caused a catastrophic drop in blood pressure and unconsciousness and death within seconds to minutes.
‘The assault or assaults that killed Star clearly involved the use of severe force and were obviously intentional. This little girl suffered no accidental death.’The prosecutor said investigations found evidence on the girl’s body which meant ‘in the course of her short life Star had suffered a number of significant injuries’.
Hollie Jones reported Star Hobson’s mum to social services but the authorities dropped the case after looking into it
Anita Smith reported Smith and Brockhill to social services after discovering pictures of Star with bruises on her face
David Fawcett, the great grandfather of Star Hobson, and grandfather of Frankie Smith, speaking to the media outside Bradford Crown Court today
Star Hobson with great grandfather David Fawcett, a postman, who alerted social services about Smith and Brockhill
Grandparents warned social services it could be another Baby P, but authorities said it was ‘malicious gossip’
Star Hobson’s great-grandparents warned social services ‘we don’t want another Baby P on our hands’ over fears for the toddler’s safety but described the response as ‘shambolic’.
Star’s great-grandfather David Fawcett, 61, said his partner Anita Smith, 70, called social workers in May 2020, after family members told her Savannah Brockhill was ‘slam-choking’ the toddler – lifting her by the throat and throwing her on a bed.
Ms Smith’s call was one of five referrals to social services in the nine months before Star was killed on September 22 2020. One from another of her great-grandfathers was closed days before her death.
Mr Fawcett said Brockhill convinced those who inspected that everything was fine and the social workers decided ‘it’s just malicious gossip, so we’ll leave it at that’.
On Tuesday Brockhill, 28, was convicted of murdering Star while Star’s mother, Frankie Smith, was cleared of murder at Bradford Crown Court but convicted of causing or allowing the toddler’s death.
Each time, the trial heard, Brockhill and Smith convinced social workers that bruising on Star was accidental or the complaints were made maliciously by friends and family who did not like their relationship.
Mr Fawcett, a postman from Baildon, Bradford, told the PA news agency: ‘When Anita made her complaint, she actually said, ‘look, we don’t want another Baby P on our hands here, do we?’.
‘The lady on the phone from social services said, ‘how do you mean?’, and we were shocked at her reaction.
‘Well, Baby P died through abuse, and we’re making a complaint.
‘My first reaction would have been, ‘yeah, right, we’re on the ball, we’ll sort this one out, we don’t want another Baby P. Especially with them being the social services.
‘It just came across as being a bit shambolic, really, Absolutely shambolic.’
Mr Fawcett, who is Smith’s grandfather, said they decided to approach the authorities when family members told them Brockhill was ‘slam-choking’ Star and threatening to shave off her hair.
He said Brockhill was prepared for the subsequent visit and they were told that the social worker concluded: ‘It sounds to me like it’s just malicious gossip so we’ll leave it at that.’
He added: ‘We weren’t there. They never came to us. We never heard anything else.’
Mr Fawcett said: ‘The next thing we heard the case was closed.
‘Anita was shocked. She said, ‘you’d have thought they would’ve come down to chat with us’.’
Mr MacDonald said there had also been two fractures to the toddler’s right leg ’caused by forceful twisting’, which had been refractured as they healed.
He described a fracture to the back of Star’s skull, and bruising, ‘much of which is considered to be non-accidental in origin’.
Mr MacDonald told the jury the toddler was ‘clearly exhausted but treated completely without love’.
He said ‘there was also a degree of cruelty and psychological harm’ inflicted on Star in the weeks and months before she died, as well as physical assaults.
A number of relatives and friends of Smith told the jury of concerns they had over bruises they saw on Star which, in some instances, they filmed.
Jurors were told that a number of referrals were by them made to social services from January 2020.
Brockhill and Smith, from Keighley, both denied murder and also causing or allowing Star’s death.
Summing up the case on Thursday, Mrs Justice Lambert told the jury the prosecution case was it was Brockhill who inflicted the fatal injuries on the toddler.
Both women denied inflicting the injuries and each claimed it must have been the other.
Smith told the jury she was not in the room when Star suffered the fatal injuries but did not suspect Brockhill until she reassessed the situation in prison.
Brockhill described how she ran into the room after hearing a thud and found Star on the floor groaning. She said she administered CPR to the youngster and called 999.
When ambulance staff found Star lifeless, pale and wearing only a disposable nappy, they attempted CPR, leading her to vomit ‘large amounts’ of brown material.
She was then rushed to Airedale hospital – just six minutes away – where clinicians did everything they could to save her, but she was pronounced dead that afternoon.
Lead prosecutor, Alistair McDonald QC, stated that Star had abdominal injuries, ‘Caused by the application of blunt force in the form of a punch, kick or stamp delivered to the front of the abdomen.’
After causing the injuries, Mr McDonald said the pair searched online for ‘shock in babies’ and waited 15 minutes before calling for help.
Mr MacDonald added: ‘The reality is that the injuries suffered by Star were so catastrophic that there never was any real chance of saving her life.’
‘The speed of all this is illustrated by the fact that the ambulance was called at 15.49 and death was pronounced at 16.59 so it all happened in a very short period of time.’
Smith’s representative, Zafar Ali QC, conceded that during the relationship, Smith had neglected her caring duties saying: ‘Frankie Smith was a terrible mother. She was selfish and sometimes callous.’
The verdicts come less than a fortnight after the stepmother of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Emma Tustin, was found guilty of his murder in a case that caused widespread shock and revulsion.
Judge Mrs Justice Lambert said Brockhill and Smith will be sentenced on Wednesday.
Social services this afternoon admitted mistakes had been made and Star was not protected.
A statement from the Bradford Partnership – Working Together to Safeguard Children said: ‘We want to say first and foremost that we’re sorry for the death of Star. This was a child’s life cut cruelly short. Two people have been brought to answer for their crimes – one has been convicted of murder and one of causing or allowing the death of a child.
‘Anyone who has followed the trial will want to know what more could have been done to help protect Star. As agencies who have a joint responsibility to protect children, this has been at the forefront of our minds. Any death of a child, wherever it happens, is one death too many, but this happened in our district, in our community and has had a devastating impact.
‘We are very aware as partners that there is much that we need to learn from this case. We have already put in place actions that will improve our practice so that we learn those lessons. But we need to fully understand why opportunities to better protect Star were missed.
‘We must also learn everything we can from the awful murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. A national review has been established to enable this to happen. If we can contribute our learning to this review, we will do.
‘We offered support and assistance to Star’s family for what we believed their needs to be, at that given time, but we all deeply regret that not all the warning signs were seen that could have led to firmer statutory enforcement action.
‘A Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review is being written by an independent author. This is almost complete and, now the trial is concluded, the review will be finalised and published in January 2022. It will provide partners and colleagues in our district and across the country with clear recommendations so we can better protect children in our care.’
Social services cleared baby killers FIVE TIMES: Star Hobson’s desperate great-grandparents begged ‘we don’t want another Baby P on our hands’ but their concerns were deemed ‘malicious’ just ONE week before 16-month-old was murdered
Social workers investigating the couple who killed innocent Star Hobson cleared them five times – even declaring a referral to them was ‘malicious’ the week before she was murdered.
The authorities fell for mother Frankie Smith, 20, and her 28-year-old girlfriend Savannah Brockhill’s lies, despite a series of concerns raised by relatives.
During an unannounced social worker visit to their Keighley home on September 15 last year Star was so dazed by the abuse she had suffered she walked into a sofa.
She had bruises on her face and shins but the Bradford City Council worker believed Brockhill’s explanation she’d fallen down the stairs.
In fact she was being ‘choke slammed’, swung by her leg and hit in the face by the twisted couple.
They referred to her as a ‘brat’ and forced her to stand facing the wall for long periods of time during their reign of cruelty.
In total two friends and three relatives – including Star’s own father – had reported them to social services but they were still allowed to keep her.
As Brockhill was today convicted of murdering her and Smith for allowing her death, serious questions were being asked of the authorities.
Two month ago the head of the council’s Children Services department Mark Douglas resigned.
Ofsted rated the service as ‘inadequate’ in 2018 and warned ‘some children were at serious risk of harm’. In June this year it was hit with a ‘direction to improve’ over a ‘slow pace of change’.
Lies from Frankie Smith, 20, and Savannah Brockhill, 28, were believed by the authorities
Bradford City Council head of Children Services Mark Douglas resigned in October this year
Social services first got involved in Star’s treatment in January 23, 2020, after a referral from Smith’s friend and sometimes babysitter Holly Jones.
She flagged up potential domestic violence issues and the fact Star was increasingly being left in her care.
Three days later police visited but there were no concerns raised. Social services tried to visit Smith on January 28 but she was not home.
Her family were spoken to and no problems were raised, so the case was closed on February 27.
Innocent Star Hobson was only 16 months old when she was killed in her Keighley home after five social services cases drop
Children’s boss quit before trial began
The Children’s Services boss in charge of Star’s care quit his £121,000-a-year post just days before Smith and Brockhill went on trial.
Mark Douglas became Bradford Council’s third Director of Children’s Services to quit within a turbulent three year period.
The department was rocked by an Ofsted report in 2018 which branded it ‘inadequate’ and said some children under its care were ‘at risk of serious harm.’
Michael Jameson quit as director soon after the report was released and he was succeeded by Gladys Rhodes White, who left less than a year later.
On his arrival in May 2019, Mr Douglas, formerly Director of Children’s Social Care at Doncaster Children’s Services Trust, vowed to ‘develop good and outstanding services for the city and district.’
Kersten England, Chief Executive of Bradford Council, said at the time: ‘Mark will be key to us achieving this so we put the voice and needs of our young people at the heart of all we do.’
The former social worker suddenly quit on October 15, just before the trial at Bradford Crown Court began
On May 5 social services were contacted by Star’s great-grandmother Anita Smith over concerns over how the baby was being treated.
They visited but there were no bruises to either the baby or her mother.
Social services spoke to Frankie Smith and Brockhill and the latter gave them permission to do police checks on her.
After making the referral, Ms Smith said she was called a ‘weirdo’ and a ‘freak’, and she and Mr Fawcett had their access to Star restricted from then on, seeing Star only a couple more times before her death that September.
Her partner David Fawcett said the tot seemed ‘depressed’ after returning to her mother.
He said she quickly developed bruises on her face and body, while appearing to have ‘lost that spark she had’ when staying with them. He told the court: ‘I’d never seen a depressed baby before in my life.’
Mr Fawcett said he had confronted Brockhill about Star’s bruises and was told ‘all kids get bruises’.
When he questioned how she didn’t get any while living with him he said she hung up the phone so he posted comparison photos of Star with bruises and without on Facebook. Frankie Smith then blocked him after seeing them.
Jordan Hobson, Star’s father, referred Smith and Brockhill to social services on June 21 after seeing pictures the couple had shared of his daughter’s bruised face.
Police again visited their home and saw the markings on the baby’s head.
Smith told them Star had hit her head on the handle of a coffee table.
A medical examination found two bruises on her cheek and four on the back of her leg.
Smith and Brockhill’s explanation that Star’s bruises came from her playing with a puppy were believed by social services
Smith and Brockhill’s explanation that they were from her playing with a puppy were believed.
Social services were again contacted on June 23 by Rachel Whiteley, a close friend of Smith’s mother Yvonne Spendley.
She had been concerned how Smith had treated Star at a barbecue, picking her up roughly.
Ms Whiteley said at the time: ‘I thought it was disgusting, giving her barbecue food, the way she handled her.’
Social services closed the case in July, it is not clear what was done.
On September 2 Frank Smith – Star’s paternal great-grandfather – alerted social services to a video of Star with bruises on her face.
When they visited her, her mother was said to have been in Scotland.
The next day they went again unannounced and found her at home with Brockhill.
They noticed Star was so unsteady on her feet she walked into a sofa while they were there.
There were also bruises on her cheek and right shin but were told by Brockhill she had fallen down the stairs.
The murderer told police later what the social worker had said, adding: ‘Social services came to see Star, she checked her body, her bedroom, chatted with us about Star, she said the report was malicious.’
On September 15 social services closed the case, indeed concluding the referral had been ‘malicious’.
A week later Star was murdered and found with fractures to her shin, ribs and skull.
She had also suffered lacerations to a vein carrying blood between her leg and organs which leaked into her abdominal cavity.
Prosecutor Alistair MacDonald QC said the injuries had been caused by a severe and forceful blow or blows, ‘either in the form of punching, stamping or kicking to the abdomen’.
Smith and Brockhill waited 15 minutes after the incident where Star was injured before calling 999.
In that period they searched online for ‘How to bring a baby out of shock.’
The jury was shown video footage of Star being shouted at in her home which Mr MacDonald said showed ‘there was also a degree of cruelty and psychological harm’ inflicted on the youngster.
In one clip, an upset Star is seen being roughly handled by Frankie Smith and a sustained attempt made to make her stand in the corner.
Mr MacDonald said: ‘It is inconceivable that any carer would wait 15 minutes to call for professional help when their 16 month-old child was showing symptoms of a medical catastrophe.
‘Any innocent carer would have been on the phone within seconds, not 15 minutes.’
He said there had also been two fractures to Star’s right leg ’caused by forceful twisting’ which had been refractured as they healed.
He also described a fracture to the back of the skull and bruising to Star, ‘much of which is considered to be non-accidental in origin’.
The prosecutor said: ‘It is also the case that social services, who were aware of Star’s case, were kept away from Star, as were many of her family in the last period of her life.’
The chilling videos that show how little Star never stood a chance: Self-styled ‘psycho’ female bouncer boasts on Snapchat she would ‘kneecap’ anyone who stood in way of her and her girlfriend and is seen raining powerful blows on punchbag
Chilling footage shows child murderer Savannah Brockhill calling herself ‘the number one psycho’ and vowing to ‘kneecap’ anyone who ‘even looked’ at her girlfriend – while a Snapchat video showed her raining down powerful blows on a punchbag.
Savannah Brockhill, 28, murdered her 20-year-old lover Frankie Smith’s daughter Star Hobson at her home in Keighley, West Yorkshire. Smith was convicted today of causing or allowing the death of the little girl.
The chilling video of her pummeling a punchbag in 2015 gives a frightening insight into Brockhill’s sheer aggression.
In a series of distressing CCTV videos, the jury saw Brockhill arriving at a recycling plant where she worked as a security guard with Star in the back. Moments later she began punching the child – although this moment was not shown in video released today.
The verdicts come 11 days after the stepmother of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Emma Tustin, was jailed for his murder in a case that caused widespread shock and revulsion. Just like that case, social services were repeatedly warned about Brockhill and Smith but Star was allowed to stay with them.
Brockhill told the court she came from an English Gypsy family and left school when she was 10, later working as a bouncer.
She regularly exhibited violent behaviour, including a Snapchat video in which she boasted: ‘I’m a psycho when it comes to my girlfriend, and wouldn’t mind putting anyone in a chair for the rest of their life if they as much look at her wrongly. Keep safe and don’t message her.’
In an unsettling speech, she tells the audience: ‘Guys and girls you need to remember the fact that Frankie is with me.
‘She keeps getting a lot of message requests and friend requests she’s not going to accept, especially from tramps like you.
‘And if you want to keep your kneecaps I suggest you stop sending her them. She’s with the number one psycho.’
The jury heard the injuries which caused the child’s death involved extensive damage to her abdominal cavity. These were ’caused by a severe and forceful blow or blows, either in the form of punching, stamping or kicking to the abdomen’.
Smith and Brockhill waited 15 minutes after the incident where Star was injured before calling 999.
In a recording of the call, she claims she was in the kitchen making a coffee when she heard a ‘bang’ coming from the living room where Star was playing with three other children.
Brockhill adds: ‘I came out and the little lad’s stood there and the little girl’s on the floor and she was crying and then she was sick. Now she’s just gone a little bit floppy to be honest with you.’
When asked what the bang was, the monster says she doesn’t know if Star had ‘fallen off the sofa’ or if the horror happened when she was playing.
She adds: ‘I came in and the little lad was saying ‘Star’…So I’ve obviously shouted her mum in, said ‘sit up Star’.
‘I’ve sat her up and I started to rub her back because she was like breathing but struggling. She started to be sick so I laid her on the floor.’
Brockhill then claims she began carrying out CPR on Star before placing her in the recovery position.
The chilling video of Brockhill pummeling a punchbag in 2015 (left) gives a frightening insight into Brockhill’s sheer aggression. Pictured right: She threatens love rivals on Snapchat
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