‘My child died alone, scared and in pain’ – Noah’s motherpublished at 12:52 BST<\/p>\n
12:52 BST<\/p>\n
A victim impact statement from Noah’s mum Masi Sibanda has been read to the court. <\/p>\n
Her son, as a baby, was “beautiful to behold,” she says and added that, as a first-time mother, “he made things so easy for me”.<\/p>\n
“If he could talk, he would have told me everything would be OK,” she says.<\/p>\n
Noah was a confident child, “always kind and full of patience and gentleness”. <\/p>\n
His mother says she had a “naive trust in the nursery” and “I will forever feel guilty”.<\/p>\n
“Since his death, there has not been a single day I haven’t regretted being alive when he is not,” she adds. “My guilt comes from knowing I handed him over to people who killed him.”<\/p>\n
The “excessive” force used on him was like that used in prisons, she said, adding he was treated as a felon, a danger, as if he was in jail.<\/p>\n
“I can’t forgive myself and cannot forgive [the] defendants,” she says.<\/p>\n
The 14-month-old had suffered so much at the hands of Cookson, she adds, who had failed to keep him alive and safe. <\/p>\n
“Guilt lives with me every time I look at my daughter,” she adds. <\/p>\n
“Why did [Cookson] hate our son so much… from what I’ve seen she simply does not care, she treated him worse than an animal. <\/p>\n
“They are the reason he died… my child died alone, scared and in pain.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘My child died alone, scared and in pain’ – Noah’s motherpublished at 12:52 BST 12:52 BST A victim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-534055","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\/534055","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=534055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}