A Judge has lifted a ban preventing the identification of two Coventry people convicted of cruelty to a five-month-old baby.
Until now the media was not allowed to name James Laidlaw, aged 22, of Wexford Road, Wood End, or Tiffany Hilton, aged 27, of Windmill Road, Longford.
But just hours after the Coventry Telegraph formally applied to the court for the ban to be lifted, the judge in the case said their details could finally be reported.
Hilton and her then-partner Laidlaw had pleaded not guilty at Warwick Crown Court to causing him grievous bodily harm with intent.
That charge was withdrawn against Hilton following a submission by her barrister Simon Hunka before the jury retired.
But the jury took just two hours and 47 minutes to find Laidlaw guilty of the charge and Hilton guilty of allowing the baby to suffer serious harm by failing to take steps protect him.
They were both also found guilty of a further charge of cruelty to a child by assaulting, ill-treating, neglecting or exposing him to unnecessary suffering between February and May last year and failing to get treatment for him.
Laidlaw, who was remanded into custody, is facing up to 16 years in jail while Hilton, who was bailed, has been told she is “overwhelmingly likely” she will be jailed.
Judge Sylvia de Bertodano adjourned sentencing until late November or early December.
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 11:20 pm