A court sentences a woman and her boyfriend to life imprisonment for the murder of the woman’s two-year-old daughter. The judge, Ms Justice Norton, describes the killing as the final act in a pattern of abuse. According to reports, the pair had subjected the child to weeks of assaults before attempting to cover up what happened. Sky News reports that the abuse lasted for weeks prior to the murder, while the Evening Standard also frames the killing as part of escalating harm and says the pair tried to conceal the attacks. Other coverage focuses on the same outcome, with both the mother and her boyfriend receiving life sentences for the child’s death. The judge’s remarks emphasize that the murder follows repeated assaults rather than a single incident, and that efforts to conceal the abuse form part of the court’s assessment. The accounts are aligned on the central facts: the child is two years old, the mother and her boyfriend are convicted of murder, and both receive life imprisonment.