{"id":620863,"date":"2026-06-04T14:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620863\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:01:09","slug":"murdered-loughton-toddler-oakley-captured-all-our-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620863\/","title":{"rendered":"Murdered Loughton toddler Oakley &#8216;captured all our hearts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jurors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy82e0nv4lzo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found her guilty of murder<\/a> on 28 May after an 18-day trial at the same court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a tribute shared by Essex Police, Oakley&#8217;s family said: &#8220;His smile could brighten even the darkest day, and his gentle spirit brought so much happiness to our family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Relatives described his love of watching the Trolls film and said they would treasure the memories shared together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will forever miss his cuddles, his laughter and the happiness he brought into our lives,&#8221; they continued. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While our hearts ache with the loss of him, we are grateful for every second we were blessed to spend with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jurors found her guilty of murder on 28 May after an 18-day trial at the same court. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-620863","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\/620863","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=620863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}