the baby s room ready for when he came back here. cumbria county council say in april 2020, they told laura the plan was for leiland james to be adopted. and, injuly, the family courts agreed. in august 2020, social workers placed leiland james with this woman, laura castle. he cries. she would repeatedly beat him. she filmed him in distress. stood up like that. injanuary, 2021, she murdered leiland james. how can someone hurt an innocent child? what, just because they couldn t cope with him doesn t mean you ve got to kill them. sorry. you have nothing to be sorry for. before leiland james died, a social worker refused to tell laura which hospital he was in. it was 2a hours later, then they eventually told me it was liverpool alder hey hospital.
being removed by a social worker. that got done the day he died. taken at birth from his hospital cot. i was in bits. i mean, i was in bits. what was leiland james doing? crying. cumbria county council say they told laura they planned to remove leiland james. she denies this. years before, laura suffered severe domestic violence, abuse that she says social workers feared would happen again a so called risk of future emotional harm. what should have happened to leiland james? he would come home. absolutely. yeah, absolutely. aisha and rebecca support women who have faced domestic abuse. they offered social workers a plan to bring leiland james home. we did have e mails going back and forth between us to see if we could work out a plan
why her son was taken. what should have happened to leiland james? he would come home. absolutely. yeah, absolutely. aisha and rebecca support women who have faced domestic abuse. they offered social workers a plan to bring leiland james home. we did have e mails going back and forward between us to see if we could work out a plan of support to see what we could offer. and was that negotiated, were you listened to? both: no. leiland james fate was already determined. cumbria county council had identified him for adoption. i was expecting him to come home. this was the last photo of mother and son together. was this during contact? that was my last contact. she would never hold leiland james alive again. laura corkill says she repeatedly asked for leiland james to come back home. inside, she told me she passed several parenting assessments. and one social worker, she says, told her she could get
shine a spotlight on an issue that s usually in the shadows. this mural recently unveiled highlights how many americans are in this fix. how many stories there are. such as matthew heath. he s been held in venezuela for nearly two years. matthew s been beaten over there so many times that both of his hands have been broken. he tried to take his own life and has been moved to a military hospital. my son is not going to survive if our government does not get him home. i don t know how much more he can endure. the return of any detainee would bring hope to others, but not dispel their desperate, agonising uncertainty. barbara plett usher, bbc news, washington. a safeguarding review of the events leading up to the murder of 13 month old leiland james corkill in cumbria will be published later today. he was killed last year by laura castle, a woman who had wanted to adopt him.
i was in bits. i mean, i was in bits. what was leiland james doing? crying. cumbria county council say they told laura they planned to remove leiland james. she denies this. years before, laura suffered severe domestic violence, abuse that she says social workers feared would happen again a so called risk of future emotional harm. what should have happened to leiland james? he would come home. absolutely. yeah, absolutely. aisha and rebecca support women who have faced domestic abuse. they offered social workers and plan to bring leiland james home. they offered social workers a plan to bring leiland james home. we did have e mails going back and forth between us to see if we could work out a plan of support to see what we could offer. and was that negotiated, were you listen to?