Global Courant 2023-04-25 19:23:51
The girl suffered more than 100 injuries, according to Justice. Her stepfather was sentenced to life in prison.
A two-year-old girl suffered 101 injuries when she was killed by her stepfather, who later claimed the family dog pushed her down the stairs, it was revealed in the girl’s death trial. The girl was murdered on July 21, 2020.
Lola James suffered a catastrophic brain injury after being attacked by her mother’s boyfriend, Kyle Bevan, 31, at their Pembrokeshire home. This Tuesday the murderer was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The mother, Sinead James, 30, told police she was sleeping when Lola sustained a series of horrific injuries, saying she had no reason to believe Bevan would harm her.
Lola James was beaten to death by her father.
According to the court, James failed to protect his daughter when he allowed Bevan to move into his home. Lola died just four months after he moved in from a “frenzied and extremely violent attack.” The biological mother was also sentenced, but to six years in prison.
Bevan denied hurting Lola, claiming that Jessie, the family’s American bulldog, had pushed her down the stairs.
Throughout the sentencing hearing at Swansea Crown Court, Bevan remained expressionless and emotionless as he was jailed for life for murdering little Lola.
The minor’s mother cried throughout the sentence and more when she was imprisoned for six years.
Doctors at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff detected 101 superficial injuries on Lola, including “bruises all over her little body and skin burns.”
Sinead James, Lola’s mother, sentenced to six years in prison.
He also suffered extensive damage to all of his retinas, as well as catastrophic brain injury, and died four days later, aged just two years and nine months.
Prosecutor Caroline Rees KC said Bevan searched the internet for information about ‘infants suffering head injuries and loss of consciousness’ on the morning of the alleged attack, July 17, 2020.
He also took photos and video of Lola’s swollen head after her injuries. But the trial heard that she waited almost an hour before raising the alarm at the family home in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.
Kyle Bevan, the 31-year-old murderer, sentenced to life.
The Swansea Crown Court heard that mother James knew her boyfriend had “a nasty and violent character” but chose to “prioritize her relationship with him over the physical safety of her own daughter”.
“The prosecution says that Kyle Bevan needed that hour to make up lies to protect himself and to make an excuse for how this little boy had gone from being alive and well to being in such a dangerous state while she was alone with him.
“She needed time to cover her tracks. When the paramedics arrived they found that Lola had been dressed but was wet and Lola was badly injured.”
Lola James had more than 100 injuries.
He was unconscious, although he was still breathing, and his head and face were swollen. Bruises were observed on Lola’s forehead. Kyle Bevan continued to try to explain things away by blaming the family dog for pushing Lola down the stairs.
“You took the young and innocent life of my granddaughter. At the same time, you took more than you can imagine,” Nicola James, the girl’s grandmother, told the killer.
