Tustin, was sentenced to life with a minimum of 29 years after being found guilty of murder. At the age of 14 she was reprimanded over a brawl with another girl and at the age of 16 was cautioned for shoplifting. She wanted children for the attention they brought her as newborns, and for the child benefit. Revealing that she had a long history of isolating her partners from friends and family he added: "She sucks the life out of each man she gets together with.
The "off the charts" levels of salt in his body were so high that medics believed their equipment was broken. In the hours before he was fatally attacked, Arthur had eaten at least 34g of salt - the equivalent of six spoons worth. Chillingly, he was so weak from the poisoning that he couldn't even put up a fight against Tustin when she battered him.
Tustin was pregnant with Hughes' baby when she violently attacked Arthur, undergoing an abortion in custody at 21 weeks. It has now been revealed prisoners gave Tustin a taste of her own medicine by spiking her meals with salt at Eastwood Park Prison in Gloucestershire. Her former cellmate of six weeks, Elaine Pritchard, told The Sunday Mirror : "Some of the things we did were cruel โ but she was crueller to Arthur so she deserved it.
His "pitiless" dad Hughes was caged for 21 years after being found guilty of manslaughter. The government has launched a major review into the circumstances leading up to Arthur's death to determine what improvements need to be made by the agencies that came into contact with him in the months before he died.
They have separately commissioned four inspectorates, covering social care, health, police and probation to undertake an urgent inspection of the safeguarding agencies in Solihull to whom Arthur was known.
