Woman cleared on murder
Thursday 25th February 2010, 12:19PM GMT.
A West Midlands mother who starved her seven-year-old daughter to death was cleared of murder today after prosecutors accepted her defence of diminished responsibility.
Angela Gordon, who admitted the manslaughter of Khyra Ishaq, was found not guilty by jurors at Birmingham Crown Court on the orders of the judge.
The decision to accept Gordon’s plea to the lesser charge came after she admitted child cruelty and experts agreed she was suffering from depression when Khyra died in 2008.
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