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| Stepfather jailed over boy's water park drowning | Stepfather jailed over boy's water park drowning |
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| The stepfather of a five-year-old boy who drowned at a water park has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years. | The stepfather of a five-year-old boy who drowned at a water park has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years. |
| Paul Smith pleaded guilty to manslaughter by gross negligence over the death of Charlie Dunn. | Paul Smith pleaded guilty to manslaughter by gross negligence over the death of Charlie Dunn. |
| Charlie, who could not swim, was found in a pool at Bosworth Water Park in Leicestershire on 23 July 2016. | Charlie, who could not swim, was found in a pool at Bosworth Water Park in Leicestershire on 23 July 2016. |
| Smith, 36, of Tamworth, denied letting the boy wander off alone for more than two hours but changed his plea during a trial at Birmingham Crown Court. | Smith, 36, of Tamworth, denied letting the boy wander off alone for more than two hours but changed his plea during a trial at Birmingham Crown Court. |
| The boy's mother, Lynsey Dunn, 28, had a charge of manslaughter dropped, but was given an eight-month suspended sentence after she admitted neglecting Charlie in a separate incident in 2015, when a neighbour prevented him driving a toy car onto a main road. | |
| The court was told Smith was heard swearing and blaming others after Charlie - who was on the child protection register - went missing while unsupervised. | |
| Mrs Justice Jefford sentenced him to five years and two months for manslaughter, with a consecutive two-year term handed down for threatening to petrol-bomb the home of a witness. | |
| Smith was also given a further four months for driving while disqualified. |