Parents' kill 10-Month- Baby Judge Tears Want to Hit on the Wall

 

Parents Kill 10-Month- Baby Judge Tears Want to Hit on the Wall

The parent of a 10-month-old baby boy who was going back to his parents' safekeeping 39 days behind time has been found guilty of murder in Britain.

Stephen Bowden and his accomplice Shannon Marsden murdered Finley Bowden on Christmas Day 2020. Finley suffered 130 'horrendous' wounds.

A jury found the couple, from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, to blame for homicide after a case at Derby Crown Court on Friday. He will be passing judgment on May 26.

The court held the couple responsible for the 'cruel and barbaric' murder. The court was told that the child was burnt and killed after repeated torture.

Finley suffered 57 broken bones and 71 cuts and bruises on his body. He also had two burn marks on his left hand, one from a 'hot flat surface' and the other probably from a 'cigarette flame'.

He collapsed after suffering a heart attack in the family's 'untidy and filthy house' in Holland Road, Old Whittington.

Paramedics were cried out there too soon on Christmas Day and Finley was laid hold of to hospital, where he was behind time and marked expired.

Stephen Bowden and Shannon Marsden did not react when the verdict was read.

Judge Justice Tipples also held back tears while addressing the jury.

During his address, at least four jury members became intoxicated and all declined to participate in lifetime jury service again, due to the traumatic nature of the case.

Finlay was taken from his parents shortly after he was born in February 2020. But later this year he was returned to his parents for care under a court order for eight weeks, although social workers had requested a six-month period.

The court was told the couple worked together to protect each other and cover up serious violence to keep the authorities away from Finley.

This included canceling a health visitor's appointment and telling social services that because they had turned up unannounced Finley might have Covid-19 and not letting them in.

The circumstances surrounding Finley's death are being investigated for the protection of a child.

A spokesman for Derbyshire County Council said it would endure fully taking part in the incident but it would be 'not appropriate' to statement further until it is complete.

Bowden, 30, and Marsden, 22, were structured and solid drug users, who would rather lay out money on drugs sooner than glance after their son, the court was told.

The court was told that toxicology tests appear cannabis in Finlay's blood, showing he may have drawn in the smoke in the 24 hours before his death.

The court appeared to text messages were mail from the couple's mobile phones. December 23, 2020, In a message saved under the name Samumi J, it was said that 'the little one kept me up all night.'

The message added, "I want to put it on the walls." Hahaha'.

After Finley's death, Bowden was heard telling Marsden in the hospital that he was going to sell Finley's pushchair 'on eBay' but later told police he was only 'trying to lighten the mood'. ' Said

Police report the conditions Finley was living in as 'filthy'

Prosecutor Mary Prior KC said Bowden later told a comparative that Finlay wept, so 'he said he gave him a bit of a fight'.

But when he saw Finley's body in the hospital on January 11, 2021, Marsden said: 'His father killed him, I didn't protect him.'

Bowden claimed her dog 'attacked' her son, causing broken ribs, while Finlay's wound inside his mouth was possibly caused by a toy.

"Finley Bowden died in what should have been the safest place in the world for him," said Inspector Stephen Shaw, who led the police investigation. His own house.

'No conviction or prison sentence will bring Finlay back, however, we now know the truth of what happened to him, and justice has been served.'

Mr. Peter Wanless, the prime administrator of the NSPCC, put on: 'It is very sore and hard to know the hurt that guides to Finley's passing, bring about by those who look after for him and secured him from molest. Should have.'