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The inquest heard from six doctors and surgeons who saw Ella-Rose at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital and Wythenshawe Hospital, each of whom apologised or admitted they should have acted differently. Miss Clover, of Manchester, paid tribute to her 'wonderful little girl', recalling her smile and laughter and adding: 'It tears me apart to think what Ella went through.' There were so many opportunities to save Ella.' 'If they had done what they should have done, Ella would be alive today. 'Two junior doctors raised concerns about possible abuse but they were ignored and a consultant couldn't even recognise a black eye when was presented to him in the inquest. As each test proved negative, they searched for another one. 'They chose to ignore the obvious and test for increasingly rarer diseases. In a statement read to the coroner's court by solicitor Diane Rostron, Ella-Rose's mother Miss Clover said: 'Doctors failed to see what was staring them in the face. The coroner found that at least two months before the murder, 'the trust ought to have known that Ella Rose's life was at significant risk from physical abuse at the hands of a criminal third party'.Īt that point, Ella-Rose had been admitted to hospital with life-threatening internal injuries.Ī Home Office pathologist said that she had struggled to think of any explanation other than non-accidental injury. He said that had the trust alerted the authorities, 'a chain of events could have resulted in the removal of Ella-Rose to a place of safety'.

Manchester Hospitals Foundation Trust accepted that it 'should have alerted Greater Manchester Police and Manchester Children's Services to a suspicion Ella's life was at significant risk'.Īfter the four-day inquest at Manchester Coroner's Court, assistant coroner Nick Stanage concluded yesterday: 'The failings admitted to by the trust possibly caused or contributed to the unlawful killing of Ella-Rose.' Independent experts told the inquest the injuries were clearly the result of abuse and the link should have been made as early as July 2017 when Ella-Rose was admitted to hospital with bruising. Her mother did not suspect Wild or Hughes and sought an explanation for the injuries from doctors, who said they were not deliberately inflicted, the inquest was told. She died after he inflicted a blow to the stomach so serious it caused internal bleeding and cardiac arrest.Įach time the little girl suffered serious unexplained bruising and was taken to hospital, she had been looked after by Hughes. Hughes's partner Michael Wild, now 32, repeatedly beat and punched Ella-Rose. She died after he inflicted a blow to the stomach so serious it caused internal bleeding and cardiac arrest Harris didn't challenge his convictions for sexual crimes against a minor Georgia's Supreme Court said those convictions stand.Ĭobb County prosecutors said in a statement Wednesday that they plan to file a motion for the case to be reconsidered.Hughes's partner Michael Wild (pictured), now 32, repeatedly beat and punched Ella-Rose. MORE: What everybody should know to help prevent hot car deaths 'We therefore reverse Appellant's convictions on the counts charging crimes against Cooper.' Because evidence that Harris 'maliciously and intentionally left Cooper to die was far from overwhelming, we cannot say that it is highly probable that the erroneously admitted sexual evidence did not contribute to the jury's guilty verdicts,' Nahmias explained.

#BABY LEGS HOT TOT DEATH TRIAL#

The trial court had denied Harris' request to sever the charges of sexual crimes from Cooper's death. 'This evidence did little if anything to answer the key question of Appellant's intent when he walked away from Cooper, but it was likely to lead the jurors to conclude that Appellant was the kind of man who would engage in other morally repulsive conduct (like leaving his child to die painfully in a hot car) and who deserved punishment, even if the jurors were not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that he purposefully killed Cooper.' 'The State convincingly demonstrated that Appellant was a philanderer, pervert, and even a sexual predator,' Chief Justice David Nahmias wrote.

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