The judge said it was “incontrovertible” that Isabelle was a “happy, healthy and thriving child” before Simpson came into her life, but “within a matter of weeks” she was being physically and sexually abused.<\/p>\n
Norton said Walker had looked after Isabelle “appropriately” before June 2025, telling her: “In your own way I’m sure you loved her, but you were more interested in yourself and your needs than you were in Isabelle’s.”<\/p>\n
The court heard Walker drank heavily every night and used and sold drugs.<\/p>\n
The judge said it was not for her to say whether it was Walker’s “attention-seeking”, which also included falsely claiming to have cancer, that led to her offending against her daughter or a “misguided loyalty” for her new boyfriend.<\/p>\n
But Walker had been “callous” and told repeated lies to those trying to save her child’s life, the court heard.<\/p>\n
“Any death is a tragedy,” the judge said, adding: “The death of a very young child at the hands of those who should have cared for, protected and loved her as she no doubt loved them, is particularly distressing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The judge said it was “incontrovertible” that Isabelle was a “happy, healthy and thriving child” before Simpson came…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-719123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719123","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=719123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}