A babysitting couple who left a three-year-old boy with more than 70 injuries have been sentenced to life in prison.
Ryan Lovell-Hancox died in hospital on 24 December 2008 after suffering a brain injury at the home of Christopher Taylor and Kayley Boleyn.
Taylor, 25, and Boleyn, 19, of Bilston, West Midlands, were told they would serve a minimum of 15 and 13 years respectively.
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".
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, West Midlands.
The four-week criminal trial heard Miss Hancox paid the pair about £20 a week to look after Ryan while she decorated her home.
From: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-black-country-10798487
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