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| Madison Horn murder: Kevin Park found guilty | Madison Horn murder: Kevin Park found guilty |
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| A man has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of the murder of a two-year-old girl in her own home. | |
| Kevin Park pulled Madison Horn's hair, lifting her up and repeatedly striking her head against a wall. He also bit and repeatedly hit the toddler. | Kevin Park pulled Madison Horn's hair, lifting her up and repeatedly striking her head against a wall. He also bit and repeatedly hit the toddler. |
| Park will have to serve at least 22 years before he can apply for parole. | |
| The 27-year-old had denied murdering Madison at the family home in Kelty, Fife, on 20 April. | |
| Madison died after being taken to hospital with massive brain and internal injuries. | Madison died after being taken to hospital with massive brain and internal injuries. |
| The High Court in Glasgow heard Madison, who died from blunt force trauma to her head and abdomen, had 65 separate injuries including a fractured skull, tears to her liver and bruising to her head and body. | The High Court in Glasgow heard Madison, who died from blunt force trauma to her head and abdomen, had 65 separate injuries including a fractured skull, tears to her liver and bruising to her head and body. |
| Park, the former boyfriend of Madison's mother Ann Marie White, was looking after the toddler at the time of the incident. | |
| Judge Michael O'Grady told Park that what he had done was wicked beyond all imagining. | |
| Park hit Madison's head off a wall at least twice, punched and stamped on her. Prosecutors also believe he may have used a broken pool cue in the violent and sustained attack. | |
| 'Dreadful things' | |
| Park also grabbed or pinched the ears of Madison, who was less that an metre tall, causing bruising. | |
| Her skull was fractured and she suffered internal bleeding and tearing to her liver. | |
| Judge O'Grady told Park: "It is the misfortune of those of us who practise in these courts to see and hear of, day after day, the dreadful things that human beings can do, one to another. | |
| "But even by those awful standards what you have done is wicked beyond all imagining. | |
| "A child in your care looked to you for comfort, protection and probably even love. And, instead for some reason quite beyond comprehension, you inflicted upon her a callous, cruel and no doubt terrifying death. | |
| "It is said so often - because it is true - no sentence that I can impose can change anything for Madison and those who loved her and from whom she has been taken. | |
| "In reality, no sentence I can impose can truly reflect the sheer awfulness of what you have done." | |
| As the jury of nine men and six woman delivered their verdict, finding Park unanimously guilty of murder, members of Madison's family shouted: "Yes." | |
| Advocate depute Jennifer Bain, prosecuting, told the court that Park had 38 previous convictions, including a number for violence. |