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Isabelle Welsh’s mother, Alexander Walker, 25, and her boyfriend, Harrison Simpson, 22, denied charges including murder, sexual assault, causing or allowing the death of a child and child cruelty offences
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Chloe Maher

Mum did nothing to save toddler after ‘campaign of violence’

A court has heard chilling claims about the final hours of a little girl’s life and the ‘campaign of violence’ she allegedly suffered at the hands of her mother and her boyfriend.

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Mum did nothing to save toddler after ‘campaign of violence’

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