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Ten years ago, Claire Throssell’s sons were killed by their father, a man with a history of violence. She explains why she is fighting to ensure their voices are heard now – and to put an end to more tragedies

Mother hopes case will ‘shine a light’ on family courts and Cafcass

Little Finley fatally collapsed on Christmas Day 2020, just over a month after he returned to his parents’ home in Old Whittington, Derbyshire, after a Family Court ordered his return

Finley died aged 10-months old with 150 injuries

Ten-month-old Finley Boden died on Christmas Day 2020 after a campaign of abuse at the hands of parents Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden.

The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service said Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden had managed to ‘deceive everyone’.

Concern that unregulated experts’ diagnoses are being used to silence parents or undermine abuse allegations in England and Wales

Elavi Dowie was a familiar face busking in Liverpool city centre