A man has been jailed for life for the murder of his former partner's two-year-old son Kyrell Matthews
Kemar Brown was jailed at the Old Bailey for life for the toddler's murder in October 2019.
"Defenceless" Kyrell Matthews was left with 41 rib fractures and internal injuries by the time of his death in October 2019 after weeks of cruelty at the hands of Kemar Brown and mother Phylesia Shirley, the Old Bailey heard. They appeared alongside each other in the dock on Friday as Brown was sentenced to at least 25 years in prison while Shirley was jailed for 13 years.
" was prepared to reject what should have been motherly care in protecting Kyrell in favour of abuse by her - his own mother - and in favour of the abuse carried out by a man she knew was abusing her child," Mr Brown told jurors.
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