'Mocking' killers of three-year-old boy jailed for life
The couple had only looked after Ryan for about a month
A couple who murdered a three-year-old boy in their care, inflicting more than 70 injuries on him, have been jailed for life.
Ryan Lovell-Hancox died on 24 December 2008 in hospital from a brain injury he received at the West Midlands home of Christopher Taylor and Kayley Boleyn.
Taylor, 25, and Boleyn, 19, of Bilston, were told they would serve a minimum of 15 and 13 years respectively.
The judge said the couple had mocked the child when he cried out for help.
The defendants blamed each other for Ryan's injuries.
Ryan's mother, Amy Hancox, 21, who knew nothing of the abuse, had told the court she had given Ryan to the pair to look after as she "was not coping".
The court heard that two days before Ryan's death, Miss Hancox tried to break down the door of Boleyn's home to see her son, but Boleyn refused to let her in as Ryan was covered in bruises.
Boleyn and Taylor were convicted of murder and child cruelty at Wolverhampton Crown Court in March.
The couple had been looking after Ryan for almost a month at their flat in Slim Avenue, Bilston.
The four-week criminal trial heard Miss Hancox paid the pair about £20 a week to look after Ryan while she decorated her home.
Kayley Boleyn and Christopher Taylor had both denied the murder
During the trial she told the court: "My crime was naivety. Kayley is related to my family. She never showed any signs of nastiness.
"All I want is to see these two locked up for a lifetime and most of all I want and need a chance to rebuild my life and put my son to rest after this long period of time."
Jailing the pair, Mrs Justice Macur said they had made Ryan's life "hell" and said they were incapable of looking after themselves, let alone a child.
"There were bruises to his skull, which had been inflicted by up to 10 individual blows.
"There were marks on his legs and grazes to his face."
He had also been grabbed forcibly around the jaw, slapped and punched, she said.
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She added the couple were unable to keep their own lives under control without smoking cannabis and drinking alcohol and they took their petty grievances out on the boy.
West Midlands Police has said no action will be taken against Miss Hancox for leaving Ryan in Taylor and Boleyn's care.
Det Con Keith Langdon, speaking on behalf of the family, said Taylor and Boleyn had deprived Ryan of his life, and therefore should be deprived of their freedom.
A statement released by the family said: "We think about Ryan every day and we realise that nothing will bring him back.
in cases like this
the only justice is the noose
in my opinion
You know what these stories make me so angry,People like this they should leave them to rot,put them in a cell and let some nutter get to them beat sh1t out of them and let them starve and have a painful death.I hope they rot in hell.
Why don't we bring back the death penalty?sh1ts like these don't deserve to be on this earth
Is that what "life" is these days? 13 and 15 years? No doubt Darren has something to say...
why waste good rope? bullet each between the eyes would do just fine.
if this happened in the states, the prosecution would seek the death penalty, no doubt about it. and it would be deserved.
(waiting for darren to somehow blame the child/justify not killing these cocksuckers)
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Darren seems more concerned about the guilty, Than their victim's.Originally Posted by VidicMonster
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if its beyond reasonable doubt (which in this case it looks pretty open and shut), then shoot the f*ckers and bury them in a shallow grave i say.
no room in society for sickos like this, behind bars or not.
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I belive in the death penalty but i dont think that it should be quick they should be made to suffer like their victims
imo, the faster they're killed and gotten rid of, the better. bullets are cheap, quick, and effective.
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Sound like I'm not the only one who believes in torture and maybe Guantanamo Bay? In extreme cases like this (which YIDDO said in the other thread) where the person is proven guilty beyond doubt they should be tortured before eventually being made to pay.
The sentences these vile scumbags got were a disgrace. But to use it as a vehicle to promote the death sentence is the kind of short sightedness I come to expect reading The Sun. We've had the death sentence here before when innocent people were hanged on the back of hysterical campaigns. I still wouldn't go back to that.
post of the year imo
Aye, totally agree with you.
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That is the most sensible post on here for a long time, and I agree with every word of it. Whilst you have the death penalty an innocent person WILL be hung, and that despite what some on here believe is NOT a price worth paying. The sentences that the two lowlife's got were ridiculous, but that doesn't mean we should bring back the death penalty.
I think this is why we are saying, bring it back for crimes which the evidence says a person killed another person 100% such as being caught on camera!
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You can't do that though, the death penalty either returns or it doesn't.
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