The mother of toddler Star Hobson has been released from prison just six years after she allowed her girlfriend to beat the one-year-old to death.
Star was murdered by nightclub bouncer Savannah Brockhill at her home in Keighley, West Yorkshire, in September 2020.
The assault followed a brutal campaign of ‘neglect, cruelty and injury’ – with Star becoming a victim of the couple’s ‘petty squabbles and jealous fights’.
Brockhill, then 28, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 25 years in a trial in December 2021.
But Frankie Smith, Star’s mother, was cleared of murder and manslaughter at Bradford Crown Court and
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