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| Khyra's mother guilty of killing | Khyra's mother guilty of killing |
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| A mother who starved her seven-year-old daughter to death has been cleared of her murder and has had her plea of guilty to manslaughter accepted. | A mother who starved her seven-year-old daughter to death has been cleared of her murder and has had her plea of guilty to manslaughter accepted. |
| Prosecutors accepted Angela Gordon's defence of diminished responsibility over the death of Khyra Ishaq. | Prosecutors accepted Angela Gordon's defence of diminished responsibility over the death of Khyra Ishaq. |
| Gordon's partner Junaid Abuhamza had a manslaughter plea accepted following a report on his mental health. | Gordon's partner Junaid Abuhamza had a manslaughter plea accepted following a report on his mental health. |
| Khyra was found severely emaciated at a house in Handsworth, Birmingham, in 2008 and died in hospital. | Khyra was found severely emaciated at a house in Handsworth, Birmingham, in 2008 and died in hospital. |
| Denied food | Denied food |
| Birmingham Crown Court heard medical professionals treating Khyra found her condition was "outside of their experience". | Birmingham Crown Court heard medical professionals treating Khyra found her condition was "outside of their experience". |
| Khyra's father 'tried to get help' | |
| Khyra and five other children under the couple's care and control had been denied food, the court heard. | Khyra and five other children under the couple's care and control had been denied food, the court heard. |
| Gordon and Abuhamza have also admitted five charges of child cruelty relating to the other children. | |
| The decision by the Crown to accept Gordon's plea on the lesser charge of manslaughter came after she admitted the child cruelty charges and psychiatrists agreed that she had been suffering from severe depression when Khyra died. | |
| Prosecutor Timothy Raggatt QC said: "It is extraordinary that it emerges so late (in the trial) but the sole reason for that is the denial... that Angela Gordon has put up around herself for all these months." | |
| Abuhamza's plea of guilty to manslaughter but not guilty to murder was accepted earlier this month. | |
| He was convicted by the jury after direction from the judge, Mr Justice Roderick Evans. | |
| Abuhamza had told the court he was brutally abused as a child and witnessed his father beating his younger sister to death when he was five years old. | Abuhamza had told the court he was brutally abused as a child and witnessed his father beating his younger sister to death when he was five years old. |
| He told jurors he had beaten Khyra with a cane, had made her stand outside in the cold and had thrown cold water over her. He said he blamed himself for Khyra's death. | |
| Gordon and Abuhamza will be sentenced on Friday next week. |