to actor bernard cribbins, famous for his many roles including in doctor who, the wombles and the original railway children who has died at the age of 93. a report looking into events leading up to the death of a 13 month old boy in cumbria has found that the woman who killed him misled social workers about her mental health, her alcohol use, and her debts. leiland james corkill was killed injanuary last year by laura castle, a woman who had hoped to adopt him. a safeguarding report found that relevant information about castle was not shared between agencies. it concluded that checks on people who want to adopt should be strengthened. first, our special correpsondent ed thomas has this report, it contains some distressing details. mummy, please don t be sad. i miss you so much too. i m safe. it s so beautiful up here. but i do worry when i see you cry. laura inhales sharply the words of laura corkill read at the funeral of her son, leiland james. .. and what do you re
I can understand why people would be questioning why, why can nobody pick up on the issues? clearly, the criminal trial also evidenced that the prospective adoptive mother was extremely deceitful, she lied to a whole range of professionals. as part of this review, we did bring practitioners together, as would normally be the case in reviews, and to really look at were there no opportunities in terms of signs, symptoms, anything that could have been picked up on? as i have already said, we tried to avoid hindsight, but i know the professionals involved have asked themselves that question as well. it is very clear that all the professionals involved, there were no indicators of what was really going on within that house and they were seen by a number of professionals through that period and in fact their family members were not aware of what was going on within their day to day living situation, so it is very difficult to pick up