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The pair, who lived in Burntwood, Staffordshire, at the time, also deny manslaughter, two counts of causing grievous bodily harm and two counts of causing or allowing a child to suffer serious physical harm.<\/p>\n
At the first day of the trial at Stafford Crown Court, Harpreet Sandhu KC, prosecuting, said Darcy-Leigh was born prematurely on 20 February 2022 and “was tiny”, weighing just over 4lb (1.8kg).<\/p>\n
She was in the care of her parents and one or both were responsible for killing her, the jury was told at Friday’s hearing.<\/p>\n
Sandhu said throughout the five weeks of her short life she was physically assaulted on a repeated basis.<\/p>\n
She told the jury at least three incidents resulted in a total of 47 rib fractures, which were likely to have been caused when her chest was squeezed.<\/p>\n
Both of her legs had been fractured too, she added, which was likely the result of her legs being pulled or twisted, or her body being shaken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warning: this story contains distressing details The pair, who lived in Burntwood, Staffordshire, at the time, also deny…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-386341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}