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during the trial, jurors listened to the hundreds of audio recordings that tustin made, all of them extremely distressing. crying. no one s going to feed me. i think they are cold, calculating, systematic torturers of a defenceless little boy. they re wicked, evil. there s no word for them. especially your own child. in court, tustin and hughes blamed each other for what was described as systematic cruelty, but it was clear both were involved. it s been a really difficult and emotional case to have to deal with. but a really important one, because ultimately ijust wanted to make sure that there wasjustice for arthur and his wider family. arthur had gone to live in tustin s house at the start of the first lockdown last year,
i think they are cold, calculating, systematic torturers of a defenceless little boy. they re wicked, evil. there s no word for them. especially your own child. in court, tustin and hughes blamed each other for what was described as systematic cruelty, but it was clear both were involved. it s been a really difficult and emotional case to have to deal with. but a really important one, because ultimately ijust wanted to make sure that there wasjustice for arthur and his wider family. arthur had gone to live in tustin s house at the start of the first lockdown last year, and that s when the abuse escalated. soon afterwards, arthur s other grandmother, joanne hughes, took this photo. but social workers who investigated said it had appeared to be a happy household.
court has to honor what they said and impose a sentence. but i tell you, your honor, i am not the person that miss mccarthy has tried to paint in this courtroom. i m not a monster. i m not a monster. we waited to see if the judge would buy reginald s story or the prosecutor s. and here it was. you are a cold, calculating, conniving coward of a con man who must be punished. and indeed he was. life without parole. take him away. so that was justice. the most nailah s family could hope for. terribly important. and strangely empty. it s still not done. she s still not back. you still can t talk with her. no. they try to remember nailah not as a murder victim but as the beautiful young woman she was. the vibrant center of her family. but grief, real and painful, comes to visit every day.