Mother threatened other children after starving son to death
AN ALCOHOLIC mother of eight who starved her four-year-old son to death threatened to kill her other children, a judge who sentenced her to 15 years in prison has heard.
New revelations about Amanda Hutton’s behaviour emerged as she was jailed for the manslaughter of Hamzah Khan, whose decomposed body was found at her home almost two years after he died in December 2009.
Judge Roger Thomas QC also heard how social services were alerted to potential problems at her house six months before police found five children living in “breathtakingly awful” conditions in the home, as well as Hamzah’s mummified remains.
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