they wouldn t allow me. did you say anything to him? that i loved him. he was my. my shining star. a review by cumbria county council into the decisions surrounding leiland james death will be published later. laura corkill was not asked to be part of it. i spent more time with leiland in death than in life. leiland james is laid to rest close to laura s home. i loved him. millions and millions. tv cameras will film in some criminal courts in england and wales for the first time today.
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. she believes that is why her son was taken. what should have happened to leiland james? he d come home with support in place. absolutely. yeah, absolutely. aishea 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. yeah, i was expecting him to come home. this was the last photo of mother and son together.
about humanity. it is all about reaching out to people and making sure that they have all the resources and things that they need to be able to resettle their lives, if they have been uprooted by conflict or climate change, so, you know, i believe that a humane approach needs to be taken in any situation. ~ . situation. ok. we will leave it there. salma situation. ok. we will leave it there. salma zulfilqar, - situation. ok. we will leave it there. salma zulfilqar, thank| situation. ok. we will leave it. there. salma zulfilqar, thank you very much indeed for your time, thank you. the events leading up to the murder of a 13 month old boy in cumbria are the subject of a safeguarding review to be published later today. leiland james corkill was killed injanuary last year by laura castle, a woman who had hoped to adopt him. in herfirst interview, leiland james mother, laura corkill, says her son was wrongly taken away from her at birth and would still be alive if he had been left with h
today at 6:00, we re live from birmingham as the commonwealth games get under way with final preparations for the opening ceremony. the city is getting ready to party as 6,500 athletes from 72 teams arrive for the biggest sporting programme in commonwealth games history. i think it s a wonderful, wonderful thing. it s good for the community, good for the city in total. it s good for the next generation of people that want to get involved in athletics as well. also on the programme tonight the harrowing story of a woman who killed the baby she hoped to adopt. one year old leiland james corkill died from catastrophic head injuries a safeguarding review says the woman who tried to adopt him repeatedly lied to social workers.
what, just because they couldn t cope with him? doesn t mean you ve got to kill them. sorry. before leiland james died, a social worker refused to tell laura which hospital he was in. it was 2a hours later, and then they eventually told me it was liverpool alder hey hospital. by the time i got down there he had already been dead. and eventually i went into his room. ijust wanted to pick him up. they wouldn t allow me. your child. they wouldn t allow me to pick him up. i spent more time with leiland in death than in life. the safeguarding review into the decision to allow leiland james into laura castle s care will be published later. laura corkill was not asked to be part of it. i loved him. millions and millions.