One of the killers of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes has had his prison sentence increased by judges at the Court of Appeal.
Arthur’s stepmother, Emma Tustin, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 29 years in December last year for murder, while his father, Thomas Hughes, was sentenced to 21 years for manslaughter.
The pair appealed against the length of their sentences – which were also referred to appeal court judges for being unduly lenient.
Judges have increased Hughes’s jail term by three years, to 24 years, while Tustin’s has remained unchanged.
Tustin and Hughes were convicted of killing the youngster who suffered an unsurvivable brain injury while in Tustin’s care.
The boy, from Solihull in the West Midlands was poisoned, starved and beaten by Tustin, 32, and Hughes, 29, in a prolonged campaign of abuse.
Court of Appeal judges also reviewed the sentence of Jordan Monaghan.
He was handed three mandatory life sentences and ordered to serve a minimum term of 40 years at Preston Crown Court in December after he murdered two of his children and his new partner.
The 30-year-old obstructed the airways of Ruby, aged 24 days, and Logan, 21 months, in January and August 2013.
While on police bail six years later, he killed his new girlfriend, Evie Adams, 23, with a drug overdose in October 2019.
