'NEVER FORGIVEN'
Star Hobson’s aunt blasts ‘monster who destroyed our lives’ & vows never to forgive mum and partner who murdered toddler
TRAGIC Star Hobson's aunt has blasted her killers as “monsters” who destroyed their lives – and has vowed to “never forgive” the tot's mum and partner.
Evil Frankie Smith, 20, was jailed for eight years in December after a jury at Bradford Crown Court convicted her of causing or allowing the death of her own child.
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She stood idly by as her violent partner and self-styled No1 Psycho, Savannah Brockhill, 28, murdered defenceless 16-month-old Star.
Her own family were appalled at the soft sentence which will see her released from prison after serving just four years.
Smith’s sister, Alicia Szepler, has now vowed that she will never forgive her and her evil partner for murdering the defenceless tot.
She said: “When she first came home when she was a baby, she lived at mum's house with us all.
“We were like a big happy family. She had big blue eyes, dark hair. She loved music, my grandad would play the guitar.
“She loved music and dancing. We used to go to the park, she had a big smile and her big eyes.
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“I don't even have words, in our family, we don't say her name, and we call her the monster.
“How someone can do that to a child. She took Star and Frankie and she took Andrew my stepdad away from us, she's destroyed the whole family.
“It's completely ruined our family. I'm glad that she got the sentence she got because she deserved it.”
Star suffered horrifying injuries, including broken bones, cracked ribs, a 12cm skull fracture and countless bruises across her face and body.
Helpless Star was battered to such an extent that by the end in September 2020 she was unable to stand, let alone walk.
She was punched, slapped, kicked, pinched and throttled in the months before her death by evil amateur boxer Brockhill.
Smith turned a blind eye as she repeatedly used the tot as a punch bag.
Talking about her sister, Alicia said: “I feel different each day, some days I miss her, but when I look at her that's who I miss, she's not that person anymore.
“I think about when we were younger and all our memories we had together, it will never be the same again.
“I will love her in private, but I can't speak to her again, I can’t do it. Every time I do I think about Star.
'STOMACH TURNED'
“I had screamed at Frankie saying you don't have to be with that girl. I feel angry because if that was me and that was my child I would have got away and got out of that situation no matter what.
“So I can’t forgive that. The first day of the trial was the absolute worst.
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“We didn't know they had all that evidence. The CCTV that...I couldn't even go to court, I was reading it at home.
“My stomach turned, I was screaming in the garden. she must have been so scared. It was so horrible.
“I saw her in August, and I didn't know she had any of those injures. If I did, I would have run off with her.
“I wouldn't have cared what the consequences were. We all would have, me nan and grandad.”
The Attorney General appealed Smith's sentence and sent it to the Court of Appeal to be reviewed.
The maximum jail sentence for causing or allowing the death of a child is 10 years.
Brockhill’s life sentence and minimum 25 year jail term will not be appealed.
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In total, social services missed five crucial opportunities to save Star from her tormentors.
A serious case review into her murder and the failings which led to it is already underway.
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