CCTV Footage Show Stepmother Eating Mcdonald’s While Her Boyfriend 6Yr Old Son Starves In Hallway.

In the days preceding up to her partner’s six-year-old son’s death, a lady accused of killing him ate McDonald’s while the boy was forced to sleep on the floor in the hallway, a court heard. On June 12, Arthur Labinjo-Hughes sat in the hallway for 14 hours and 19 minutes as Emma Tustin, 32, ate in the living room just a few feet away.

Tustin was seen lugging bags of McDonald’s food into the living room while Arthur screamed he hadn’t eaten his lunch, according to CCTV footage from the house showing the alleged mistreatment Arthur experienced before his demise.

The kid was still on the floor in the corridor nine hours later, according to the court, while Tustin sat on the couch beneath a blanket and watched TV.

The next day, June 13, Arthur spent another 11 hours and 49 minutes in the corridor, according to the court. Tustin and Hughes are blamed for ‘poisoning’ the youngster with salt and torturing him for months before murdering him by ‘hitting his head into a hard surface.’ Both deny killing Arthur, who fell on June 16 last year at Miss Tustin’s house in Shirley, Solihull, West Midlands.

He died the next day at Birmingham Children’s Hospital from a catastrophic brain injury. In the days leading up to his death, Arthur was forced to run marathon ‘stints’ before the front entryway, Coventry Crown Court heard.

It was also stated that he was forced to sleep on the floor in the living room despite the fact that there were unoccupied beds upstairs. Prosecutors claim it was part of a “campaign of brutality” he was exposed to before being illegally killed. On June 13, surveillance footage from the residence showed Hughes and Tustin having ice cream cones on the couch and relaxing in the hot tub while the youngster was there. 

Tustin had contacted Hughes earlier in the day, accusing Arthur of “making my life horrible.” According to the court, Tustin wrote multiple messages alleging Arthur was ‘screaming,’ declining to eat his meal, asking to see his grandma, and even hitting her.

Miss Tustin has pleaded guilty to one count of child maltreatment but rejects further allegations of the same crime. Mr Hughes, of Shirley, also rejects any wrongdoing involving children. The jury was given further text messages, audio and video footage shared between the defendants, who paddled on different occasions over Arthur, on day three of the trial yesterday.

Miss Tustin made several allusions to being pregnant in the weeks running up to June 16, the jury was told, and in one message she accused Mr Hughes of “turning his back” on his unborn baby. Another text she sent to her partner, according to the court, stated that he remained with the devil child. Miss Tustin allegedly argued with Mr Hughes about Arthur the week before he died, claiming, ‘There’s one issue in this house.’ ‘It’s just one individual wreaking havoc.’ According to jurors, she also mentioned Mr Hughes striking Arthur and kicking a hole in the door in messages on June 11.

The jurors was also taken on a virtual tour of the residence when the prosecution began presenting CCTV footage from within the property in the days leading up to Arthur’s murder. Mr Hughes had taken full custody of Arthur when his mom, Olivia Labinjo-Halcrow, was charged with the murder of her new lover, Gary Cunningham, in February 2019. She was sentenced to 11 years in prison in July of this year after being found guilty of manslaughter.

Tustin was the ‘only potential offender’ behind the alleged lethal attack on Arthur on June 16 since she was caring after him alone at the time, according to prosecutor Jonas Hankin, who opened the case. Hughes, he claimed, “shares guilt” since he “actively supported” the killing.

May this precious child’s soul rest in peace.

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