Hutton jailed for starving her 4year old son to death
A mother who allowed her four-year-old son to starve to death and left his decomposing body in a cot for nearly two years has been jailed for 15 years. The judge said Amanda Hutton had displayed “wicked conduct”
Alcoholic mother-of-eight Amanda Hutton was convicted of the manslaughter of Hamzah Khan, who died in December 2009 due to severe malnutrition.
His mummified remains were found in squalid conditions at their Bradford family home 21 months later.
The judge said Hutton posed a “real danger” to children.
On keeping Hamzah’s death a secret, the judge said Hutton was “worried that people would find out you killed him”.
He told her: “Your deviousness was to keep various agencies away from you and your children. “Your wicked conduct has been displayed in such awful detail.”
Hutton had previously admitted the neglect of Hamzah’s five siblings, who also lived at the house and were aged between five and 13 in 2011, and preventing the burial of Hamzah’s body.
The boy’s body was found after an inexperienced police community support officer became concerned about children at the house while she was investigating reports of soiled nappies being thrown into a neighbour’s garden.
Officers who later found Hamzah were also faced with an overwhelming smell coming from ankle-deep rubbish in the house, including vodka bottles and rotting food.
Hutton showed no emotion as she was led from the dock. She was jailed for 12 years for manslaughter and three years for child cruelty to run consecutively.
She was also sentenced for two-and-a-half years for preventing the lawful burial of a child, to run concurrently.