Star Hobson’s mum who let ‘psycho’ lover murder baby has ‘lenient’ jail term increased
15.03.2022 - 16:19
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
A mum whose 16-month-old daughter was murdered has had her jail sentenced increased to 12 years today after a hearing at the Court of Appeal by the Attorney General.
Frankie Smith, was originally handed eight years behind bars for causing or allowing the death of her daughter Star Hobson when her former girlfriend Savannah Brockhill was found guilty of the youngster’s murder.
Suella Braverman, the Attorney General for England and Wales said the case was “tragic and extremely upsetting” and she believes Smith’s sentence was “unduly lenient”.
Senior judges made the decision to increase Frankie Smith's prison sentence at a hearing at 10.30am.
The adorable toddler died after she was taken to hospital in September 2020, having suffered “utterly catastrophic” and “unsurvivable” injuries at Brockhill’s hands.
Brockhill, 28, a bouncer and security guard, was found guilty of Star’s murder, receiving a 25-year minimum sentence, according to Mirror Online.
During the trial, jurors heard Smith’s family and friends had growing fears about bruising they saw on the little girl in the months before she died and made a series of complaints to social services.
In each case Brockhill and Smith, both of Keighley, managed to convince social workers that marks on Star were accidental or that the complaints were made maliciously by people who did not like their relationship.
Prosecutors described how the injuries that caused Star’s death involved extensive damage to her abdominal cavity “caused by a severe and forceful blow or blows, either in the form of punching, stamping or kicking to the abdomen”.
Jurors also heard there were other injuries on her body which meant that “in the course of her short life, Star had suffered a number of